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Awarded. To Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, 58 this month, member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (Manhattan); onetime (1917-25) Johns Hopkins professor, the Pictorial Review's $5,000 prize for "The most distinctive contribution to American life in the fields of Arts, Letters or The Sciences" in 1928. Only woman member of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Sabin directs the testing of chemical substances isolated from the tubercule bacillus to discover their separate effects in order to analyze each factor of the disease itself...
...This award was made last week, for 1928, to Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, 58, of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, for her research on tuberculosis...
...unique member of the National Academy of Sciences addressed that sage body at its 66th annual meeting in Washington last week. She, Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, 57, medium-sized and dark, is the only woman member of the Academy. Her membership went to her about five years ago after 22 years' work at Johns Hopkins (where she was a professor) for her research on blood cells, blood vessels and the lymphatic system, (histology). Now she is a member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, going deeply into the causes of tuberculosis. That is what she discoursed...
...vanguard of U. S. Science, the 100 who met last week in Washington. They assembled as the 4 National Academy of Sciences to consider news from unknown fields. For her exploration of blood cells, they received into their ranks the first woman member of their company, Miss Florence Rena Sabin, physiologist at Johns Hopkins Medical School...
...Florence Rena Sabin is professor of histology at Johns Hopkins Medical School. She is 51 years old, a B. S. and Sc. D. of Smith and an M. D. of Hopkins, After a varied teaching experience, she became an intern at the Hopkins Hospital in 1901 and worked up through the ranks in the department of anatomy until she stands today among perhaps a score of the leading anatomists of the country. She is favorably known for her work on the medulla oblongata and the lymphatic and vascular systems. When American women presented Mme. Curie with a gram of radium...