Mildred Cohn (1913 - 2009)

Born 12 Jul 1913 in New York City, New York, United States

Died 12 Oct 2009 at age 96 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

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Award-winning Biochemist most famous for pioneering the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to study organic reactions. Alma mater Hunter College (B.S., 1931), Columbia University (M.S., Ph.D. 1937). Daughter of Isidore and Bertha (Klein) Cohn.

She spent much of her research career at Cornell with Vincent du Vigneaud, then at Washington University of St. Louis working with Nobel laureates Carl and Gerty Cori. She became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1960 until 1982.

Cohn received the National Medal of Science in 1982 in biological sciences for “pioneering the use of stable isotopic tracers and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the study of the mechanisms of enzymatic catalysis.” She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2009 shortly before she died ^[1].

Sources

1. ↑ National Women's Hall of Fame

• Barrer, Betty. "Mildred Cohn." Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. 31 December 1999. Jewish Women's Archive. (Viewed on February 16, 2023)
• Science History Institute
• Women in Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine; Becker Medical Library, 2002.