Seymour Stanley Cohen (April 30, 1917-December 30, 2018) was an American biochemist. Cohen was born in

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in April 1917. He attended

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and his PhD came from

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under the supervision of

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. In the 1940s he worked on plant viruses and for the Rockefeller Institute. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1945.Guggenheim Fellowship page
/ref> 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.Dr. Seymour S. Cohen obituary
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