Edwin Cohn and the Harvard Blood Factory - by Eric Gilliam
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How a chemistry “purist” built one of World War II’s greatest applied R&D laboratories.
The Long Read Edwin Cohn and the Harvard Blood Factory How a chemistry “purist” built one of World War II’s greatest applied R&D laboratories. Eric Gilliam Jan 05, 2025 37 6 4 Share Today we launch Issue 05 of Asimov Press. Read our full Editors’ Note and preview upcoming articles on our website . Thanks for reading! Edwin Cohn, a temperamental and entrepreneurial protein chemist working at Harvard University in the early 1900s, is perhaps one of the most underrated translational scientists of all time. In 1940, with the likelihood of America’s involvement in World War II steadily rising, the
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