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2 unusual facts about Maud Menten


Harrison Mills, British Columbia

(Before this, children had to cross the river by boat to go to school. This is how Maud Menten, perhaps Harrison Mills most famous resident, was educated.)

Maud Menten

In 1912 she moved to Berlin where she worked with Leonor Michaelis and co-authored their paper in Biochemische Zeitschrift (1913;49:333–369) which showed that the rate of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction is proportional to the amount of the enzyme-substrate complex.


Victor Henri

In a seminal paper in 1913, Michaelis and Menten derived the equation in more detail and interpreted it more profoundly.

Notably, his work was taken up by German biochemist Leonor Michaelis and Canadian physician Maud Menten.


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