Florence Sabin was born in Central City in the Colorado Territory in 1871. She graduated from Smith College in 1893 when she was 22.

Florence was the first woman to do many things in science. She went to Johns Hopkins Medical School and was the first woman to graduate from that school. In 1917 Florence Sabin was the first woman to become a full professor at any medical college. She was the first woman president of the American Association of Anatomists and the first woman elected to the National Academy of Science.

In 1925 she became head of cellular studies at Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City. She retired in 1938. When she was 73, in 1944, the Colorado governor asked her to be the chair of a committee on health. Because of her work the Sabin Health Laws were passed. They made the Colorado public health system more modern.

Florence died in 1953. They made a statue of her 7 years after she died. This statue is located in Statuary Hall in the Capitol Building in Washington DC.

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