Maud Slye, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maud Slye

American pathologist

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1879

Place of Birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Date of Death: 17-Sep-1954

Profession: writer, poet, pathologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Maud Slye (8 February 1879 – 17 September 1954), born Maud Caroline Slye, was an American pathologist who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
A historian of women and science wrote that Slye "'invented' genetically uniform mice as a research tool." Her work focused on the heritability of cancer in mice.
She was also an advocate for the comprehensive archiving of human medical records, believing that proper mate selection would help eradicate cancer.
During her career, she received multiple awards and honors, including the gold medal of the American Medical Association in 1914, in 1915 the Ricketts Prize, and the gold medal of the American Radiological Society in 1922. In 1923, Albert Soiland, pioneer radiologist, nominated Maud Slye, cancer pathologist for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
The nomination came as a result of her work as one of the first scientists to suggest that cancer can be an inherited disease, and for the development of new procedures for the care and breeding of lab mice.