Seymour S. Cohen Explained

Seymour Stanley Cohen (April 30, 1917-December 30, 2018) was an American biochemist. Cohen was born in Brooklyn, New York in April 1917. He attended City College of New York and his PhD came from Columbia University under the supervision of Erwin Chargaff. In the 1940s he worked on plant viruses and for the Rockefeller Institute.^[1] He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1945.^[2] He is known by his studies with marked of radioactive isotopes, whose results suggested an essential role of DNA in hereditary genetic material. This result would be checked in 1952 by Hershey and Chase.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Bibliography

• Bessman . Maurice J. . 9 May 1969 . Virus-Induced Enzymes, Seymour S. Cohen . . 164 . 3880 . 680–681 . 10.1126/science.164.3880.680-a . 0036-8075.
• Kresge . Nicole . Simoni . Robert D. . Hill . Robert L. . 28 September 2007 . Novel Metabolic Pathways in Virus Infection: the Work of Seymour Cohen . The Journal of Biological Chemistry . The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology . 282 . 39 . 31–32 . 1083-351X.
• Book: Olby, Robert . Robert Olby

. The Path to the Double Helix: The Discovery of DNA . Courier Corporation . 2013 . 9780486166599 . Robert Olby.

• Pegg . Anthony And . September 1998 . An encyclopedia of polyamines . Trends in Biochemical Sciences . 23 . 9 . 366–367 . 0968-0004 . 10.1016/s0968-0004(98)01275-4.
• Stevens . Lewis . September 1972 . Introduction to the Polyamines, by Seymour S. Cohen . The Quarterly Review of Biology . . 47 . 3 . 333–335 . 0033-5770 . 2821134 . 10.1086/407350.
• Tabor . Herbert . Tabor . Celia White . 1999 . A Guide to the Polyamines, Seymour S. Cohen . Analytical Biochemistry . 274 . 1 . 150 . 10.1006/abio.1999.4227.

Tertiary sources

• Book: A Dictionary of Scientists . John . Daintith . Derek . Gjertsen . . 1999 . 9780192800862.
• Book: Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists, Second Edition - 2 Volume Set . 2ª . CRC Press . 1994 . 9780750302876.

Notes and References

1. http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.48-ead.xml Seymour S. Cohen Papers at the American Philosophical Society
2. http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/seymour-s-cohen/ Guggenheim Fellowship page
3. Book: Members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 1780-2012 . Chapter C . 107 . American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
4. https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/seymour-cohen-obituary?pid=191132125 Dr. Seymour S. Cohen obituary
5. Book: Frederick Betz. Managing Science: Methodology and Organization of Research. 30 November 2010. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-1-4419-7488-4.