November 9

Florence Rena Sabin, researcher and public health reformer, is born.

On this day in 1871, Florence Rena Sabin was born in Central City, Colorado. She graduated from medical school in 1900 at a time when women usually didn't go to college. She spent many years studying how the brain works and also tried to find a cure for the deadly disease tuberculosis. In 1925 Sabin became the first woman member of the National Academy of Sciences.