Edwin Joseph Cohn

American biochemist (1892-1953) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 60

Edwin Joseph Cohn was a protein scientist. A graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover [1911], and the University of Chicago [1914, PhD 1917], he made important advances in the physical chemistry of proteins, and was responsible for the blood fractionation project that saved thousands of lives in World War II.

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