Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Edwin Joseph Cohn: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Last updated

Facts

Born December 17, 1892 • New York City • New York
Died October 1, 1953 (aged 60) • Boston • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study plasma • protein
default image
Ernst Felix Hoppe-Seyler
German physician
default image
Dorothy Maud Wrinch
British-American mathematician and biochemist
default image
Thomas Steitz
American biophysicist and biochemist
default image
George P. Smith
American biochemist
Fenn, John B.
John B. Fenn
American scientist
default image
Bruce Merrifield
American biochemist and educator
default image
William H. Stein
American biochemist
default image
Walter Bradford Cannon
American neurologist and physiologist
Anfinsen, Christian B.
Christian B. Anfinsen
American biochemist
default image
Stanford Moore
American biochemist
Mendel, Lafayette Benedict
Lafayette Benedict Mendel
American biochemist
Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
default image
Theodor H.E. Svedberg
Swedish chemist
default image
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
Finnish biochemist
Sir Ernst Boris Chain seated in a suit, looking toward the camera with hands clasped in his lap.
Sir Ernst Boris Chain
British biochemist
default image
Rodney Robert Porter
British biochemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew
British biochemist
Kossel, Albrecht
Albrecht Kossel
German biochemist
Tiselius, oil painting by William Fleetwood, 1965; in Gripsholm Castle, Mariefred, Swed.
Arne Tiselius
Swedish biochemist
default image
Gerty Cori
American biochemist