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Seymour S. Cohen

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Education
  
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (1941)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

Books
  
A Guide to the Polyamines, Introduction to the Polyamines

Seymour Stanley Cohen (born in Brooklyn on April 30, 1917) is an American biochemist. He attended City College of New York and his PhD came from Columbia University. In the 1940s he worked on plant viruses and for the Rockefeller Institute. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1945.

He is known by his studies with marked of radioactive isotopes, whose results suggested an essential paper of the DNA like base of the hereditary genetic material,[9][2] that would remain checked in 1952 by Hershey and Chase.[2]

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Seymour S. Cohen Wikipedia