Year Inducted
2002
Highlights
- First woman admitted to the American Physiological Society
- Third woman, and the first woman from the United States, to receive her doctorate from Heidelberg University in Germany
- Creator of the KU Department of Physiology and its first Chair
- First woman ever allowed to do research at Harvard Medical School
- Inventor of a microclectrode for stimulating single cells, a breakthrough in neurophysiology
- Endowed the Association of American University Women with the Ida H. Hyde International Fellowship