Stanley Cohen (biochemist)
Stanley Cohen (born November 17, 1922 in Brooklyn , New York City , USA ; † February 5, 2020 in Nashville , Tennessee ) was an American neuroscientist and biochemist who studied the structure and function of growth factors and the mechanism of hormones concerned. In 1986 he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .
biography
academic career
Cohen was born the son of Jews who emigrated from Russia . His father was a tailor . He studied zoology at Brooklyn College (bachelor's degree in 1943) and Oberlin College (master's degree in 1945), began studying biochemistry at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1945 , where he received his doctorate in 1948.
After completing his doctorate, he was an instructor at the University of Colorado Denver , 1952/53 American Cancer Society Research Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis and there from 1953 to 1959 Associate Professor in the Faculty of Zoology. In St. Louis he began to work with Rita Levi-Montalcini in the study of nerve growth. In 1959 he became an assistant professor and later professor of biochemistry in Nashville at Vanderbilt University (School of Medicine), where he retired in 1986.
honors and awards
In 1982 Cohen was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize , 1983 the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize , and 1985 a Gairdner Foundation International Award . In 1986 he and Rita Levi-Montalcini received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the nerve growth factor . In 1988 he received the Pincus Medal, 1981 the HP Robertson Memorial Award, 1983 the Lila Gruber Memorial Cancer Research Award, 1987 the Albert A. Michelson Award and 1986 the National Medal of Science .
He received honorary degrees from the University of Chicago , Brooklyn and Oberlin College, and Washington University.
He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1984) and the National Academy of Sciences (since 1980).
literature
- Gisela Baumgart: Cohen, Stanley. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 266.
- Graham Carpenter and Robert Coffey: Stanley Cohen (1922-2020). In: Science . Volume 367, No. 6484, 2020, p. 1307, doi: 10.1126 / science.abb4095 .
Web links
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1986 award to Stanley Cohen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biochemist and Nobel Prize winner Stanley Cohen dies in Nashville at age 97. Accessed February 6, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cohen, Stanley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American neuroscientist and biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th February 2020 |
| Place of death | Nashville , Tennessee |