Florence Elizabeth Eves (d. 1911) was an English physiologist noted as the first woman to receive a degree in physiology.
[2] She gained a class I pass in 1881, and received her BSc from the University of London that year as Cambridge was not awarding degrees to women.
[5] She studied the process of liver ferment, publishing solo and with John Newport Langley about her findings in the Journal of Physiology.
[6] She was involved with the establishment of the Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women, raising funds for it in 1881 (including a donation from Charles Darwin)[7] and collaborating with Marion Greenwood on a prospectus for its teaching when it opened in 1884.
She was interested in social reform, and became head of the Women’s House of the Christian Socialist Union in Hoxton.