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Stanley Norman Cohen

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Stanley Norman Cohen
Stanley Norman Cohen, 2016
Born (1935-06-30) June 30, 1935 (age 89)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materRutgers University, University of Pennsylvania
SpouseJoanna Lucy Wolter
AwardsNational Medal of Science, Wolf Prize in Medicine
Scientific career
FieldsGenetics
InstitutionsStanford University

Stanley Norman Cohen (February 17, 1935) is an American geneticist.[1] He was the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine.[2]

Cohen and Herbert Boyer were the first scientists to transplant genes from one living organism to another.[3][4]

References

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  1. Hughes, Sally Smith (1995). "Stanley N. Cohen SCIENCE, BIOTECHNOLOGY, and RECOMBINANT DNA: A PERSONAL HISTORY (Oral history)" (PDF). Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California. Berkeley, California.
  2. "Stanford School of Medicine Profiles: Stanley N. Cohen, MD". Stanford School of Medicine. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
  3. Yount, Lisa (2003). A to Z of biologists. New York: Facts on File. pp. 47–49. ISBN 978-0816045419. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  4. Cohen, S. N. (16 September 2013). "DNA cloning: A personal view after 40 years". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (39): 15521–15529. Bibcode:2013PNAS..11015521C. doi:10.1073/pnas.1313397110. PMC 3785787. PMID 24043817.