Arda Alden Green was an American biochemist who co-discovered the neurotransmitter serotonin and discovered the reaction responsible for firefly bioluminescence.
13 Facts About Arda Green
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Arda Green is known for contributing to Gerty Cori and Carl Cori's elucidation of the Cori cycle and showing how pH affects hemoglobin's ability to bind and transport oxygen.
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Arda Green received the Garvan-Olin Medal from the American Chemical Society for her work.
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Arda Green was born in Prospect, Pennsylvania, daughter of Vennis A Green and Melva Stevenson Green.
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Arda Green's father taught chemistry, and her sister Metta Clare Green earned a PhD in physics.
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The Green family moved to California when Arda was a girl.
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Arda Green earned undergraduate degrees in chemistry and philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley in 1921; she continued into graduate study of philosophy, but soon shifted her focus to medicine.
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Arda Green earned a medical degree at Johns Hopkins University in 1927.
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Arda Green started medical studies at Berkeley, but took a year off to study under protein biochemist Edwin J Cohn at Harvard University at the encouragement of Herbert M Evans.
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Arda Green then completed her medical studies at Johns Hopkins University, where she worked on electrolyte conductivity in membranes with Leonor Michaelis and graduated in 1927.
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Arda Green collaborated with Ronald M Ferry on studies into hemoglobin's pH dependence and would later continue characterizing hemoglobin's solubility and interactions with carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.
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Arda Green received the Garvan-Olin Medal from the American Chemical Society in autumn 1957 and it was formally awarded posthumously in April 1958.
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Arda Green died in January 1958, from breast cancer, at the age of 58.