Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edwin J. Cohn, professor of Biological Chemistry, has been picked by a poll of reading medical scientists throughout the country as the first winner of the Passano Foundation Award for his outstanding achievements in the field of blood extractionation...
...referring, of course, to the now world-famous experiments of Edwin J. Cohn '17, head of the Department of Physical Chemistry, who has led the way in one of Harvard's most conspicuous contributions to the war. Professor Cohn has discovered to date 20 unknown substances in human blood which have opened new vistas in plastics and military medicine...
Ranging from albumen to measles globulin, Professor Cohn's already long list of extractions has only recently been enlarged by two new ones, a synthetic membrane or skin used in treating burns, and a dark brown substance, with possibilities in medical use just beginning to be explored...
Professor Cohn is convinced that there is no limit now in sight to the other fractions of plasma that can be used. Cohn had studied the proteins of plasma for many years when he was asked by the Office of Scientific Research and Development in 1940 to further advance his exploration. Since then, seven unique plasma fractionation plants have been built throughout the United States in collaboration with the Navy...
With the constant support of the Red Cross and the National Research Council, Cohn's researches have been an integral part of the Navy's plasma fractionation program. Actually, they are the program, since the navy from the start vested complete authority in the technological and industrial fields in Professor Cohn. Cohn is never quoted, but his colleagues say that "the number of components that may be identified remains far greater than the number of fractions that it has been convenient to separate...