Ida Hyde, PhD

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