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5-2022

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Exhibit detail: Florence Sabin

Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953) was an American anatomist and medical researcher. Her excellent and innovative work on the origins of the lymphatic system, blood cells, and immune system cells, and on the pathology of tuberculosis was well-recognized during her lifetime. She was also a trailblazer for women in science: the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. In her retirement years, she pursued a second career as a public health activist in Colorado, and in 1951 she received a Lasker Award for this work.

Idea, design: Olga Nilova

Photograph by Lubosh Stepanek

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Florence Sabin, lymphatic system, tuberculosis

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