Edwin Cohn
Edwin Cohn · Science & Medicine
Biochemist who developed blood plasma fractionation, enabling the medical use of albumin and immune globulins.
1892, New York City, United States — 1953, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
United States
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Cohn was a biochemist who developed blood plasma fractionation, a method for separating plasma into components such as albumin and immune globulins that saved countless lives during and after World War II. He was Jewish, born to a Jewish family in New York, and led his pioneering work at Harvard Medical School.
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Biochemist who developed blood plasma fractionation, enabling the medical use of albumin and immune globulins.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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