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Florence
Sabin
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Dr.
Florence Rena Sabin
carved out three
brilliant and
diversified careers--one
as a teacher, one as a
research scientist and
the third as a crusader
for better public health
in her beloved state.
Dr. Sabin was born
in Central City,
Colorado. 
In 1895, Dr. Sabin
was one of the early
women students at Johns
Hopkins Medical School.
In 1902, she began her
teaching career which
spanned 23 years, most
of which were concurrent
with her outstanding
career as a medical
researcher. In 1917,
she became the first
woman to attain a full
professorship at Johns
Hopkins University.
In 1925, Dr. Sabin
was the first woman
elected to a life
membership in the
National Academy of
Sciences, and she was
the first woman invited
to join the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical
Research. She
established there a
Department of Cellular
Studies and continued
work on the origin of
tuberculosis.
In, 1938, at the age
of 67, she began in
Colorado her third
career. Following her
selection in 1944 as
chairman of a state
postwar subcommittee on
health, she fought a
winning fight for the so
called "Sabin Health
Bills" which resulted in
the enactment of
adequate state health
laws.
She later
reorganized Denver's
Health Department. In
celebration of Dr.
Sabin's 80th birthday,
the Florence R. Sabin
Building for Research in
Cellular Biology was
dedicated at the
University of Colorado
Department of Medicine
on December 1, 1951.
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