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Florence Rena Sabin (November 9, 1871 – October 3, 1953) was an American medical scientist. She was a pioneer for women in science; she was 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. [1]
1924: Florence Bascom became the first woman elected to the Council of the Geological Society of America. [11] 1925: Florence Sabin became the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. [14] 1928: Alice Evans became the first woman elected president of the Society of American Bacteriologists. [15]
The Rape of the Sabines, 1579–1583. Height: 410cm (13ft, 5tn). Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence. Abduction of a Sabine Woman (or The Rape of the Sabine) is a large and complex marble statue by the Flemish sculptor and architect Giambologna (Johannes of Boulogne).
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The Sabines (US: / ˈ s eɪ b aɪ n z /, SAY-bynes, UK: / ˈ s æ b aɪ n z /, SAB-eyens; [1] Latin: Sabini ) were an Italic people who lived in the central Apennine Mountains (see Sabina) of the ancient Italian Peninsula, also inhabiting Latium north of the Anio before the founding of Rome.
Florence R. Sabin is a bronze sculpture depicting the American medical scientist of the same name by Joy Buba, installed in the Hall of Columns, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. The statue was gifted by the U.S. state of Colorado in 1959. [1]
1660 – The four-year-old Charles XI became King of Sweden upon his father's death.; 1891 – Frances Coles was killed in the last of eleven unsolved murders of women that took place in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London.
Sabin is the surname of the following people Albert Sabin (1906–1993), Polish-American medical researcher who developed an oral polio vaccine; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science; Alvah Sabin (1793–1885), American politician; Alec Sabin (born 1947), British actor; Alfred Sabin (1905–1982), English football player