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Slye, Maud, 1879-1954 (3)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g74tx4 (person)

Maud Slye was born in Minneapolis in 1869. Many published sources give her birth date as February 8, 1879, but U.S. Census records indicate that she was born in 1869; it may be that claimed the later birth date to avoid mandatory retirement. In 1895, Slye entered the University of Chicago as an undergraduate student and worked as secretary for President William Rainey Harper to support herself. Following a breakdown brought on by the strain of full-time work and study, Slye reloc...

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Slye, Maud, 1869-1954. (1)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fz09zs (person)

University of Chicago pathologist and cancer specialist, Maud Slye did pioneering work on cancer heredity in mice. She faced criticism from other pathologists and researchers for her contention that heredity played a key role in susceptibility to cancer; her research challenged prevailing notions of cancer as being at least partly caused by contagions. Although her hypotheses about heredity were later shown to be a simplification of the complex role genetics play in cancer susceptibility, her...

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