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Foremost among these discoveries are been the isolation of quinine by Woodward and Doering, the separation of blood plasma into its various chemical components by Dr. Cohn, the invention of an apparatus for transferring whole blood within the battle lines by Majors Emerson and Ebert, the gathering of much evidence that cancer is caused by glandular disturbances by Drs. Lieberstein, Hill and Feiser, and a new treatment for goiter by Dr. Astwood...
...Edwin Joseph Cohn, 51, has headed Harvard's Department of Physical Chemistry since it began (1920). He refuses to talk about himself, talks about his laboratory only in scientific journals in abstruse articles on the devious ways of blood. From the beginning, the laboratory's work has been too deep for most laymen, as near pure science as work on flesh & blood can be. In 1940 the National Research Council picked Dr. Cohn to find out whether beef plasma could substitute for human plasma in wartime transfusions. So far the answer is no, but in turning beef blood...
Seven commercial houses under Navy contract use Dr. Cohn's methods to extract serum albumin and other blood components. Since Dr. Cohn's laboratory does war work, the outside door is locked, the number of white-garbed assistants secret. So is most of the work being done within...
...year-old hoodlum, out on parole from reform school, met a 65-year-old rabbi. First the hoodlum insulted the rabbi, then knocked out two of his teeth. A month later Hoodlum John Peluso and Rabbi Sholem Cohn met in a New York court. The charge against Peluso: felonious assault. Said Rabbi Cohn in Yiddish (he cannot speak English): "As a rabbi, I forgive him. I don't want him punished...
...Cohn such an "unobstructed tear-duct lad" is more likely to be one of "the pinchers and garter-snappers of America." Says he: "Recently at a dinner in Washington, the conversation was suddenly stilled as a woman loudly said to the statesman who sat at her right, 'Hands on the table, Senator...