Stanley Norman Cohen
Stanley Norman Cohen is a scientist known for inventing recombinant DNA technology with Herb Boyer. Cohen was born on February 17, 1935 in a small town of Perth Amboy, New Jersey. During his childhood Cohen frequently helped his father assemble many things such as electrical fans, fluorescent mixtures and many more. Cohen developed an interest in Science from a very small age, but later switched from physics to biology and decided to become a medical doctor. Not only was Cohen interested in biology but he also enjoyed playing the banjo, ukulele and composing songs. He was also editor of his high school paper and associated as the yearbook editor. After high school Cohen decided to pursue pre-medicine studies at Rutgers College and in 1956 he graduated. Afterwards, he attended graduated school at the University of Pennsylvania School of medicine and received his MD in 1960. During is time at the university Cohen became more interested in research. While he was a the National Institute of Health he decided to combine basic research with clinical medicine, soon after he accepted a position for Stanford’s medical school in 1968 and began experimenting …show more content…
Later that day Cohen and Boyer met in a deli to discuss how they could collaborate together. In just four months they were able to successfully introduce foreign DNA into bacterial plasma using both of their methodologies. As both Herb and Cohen began discussing the experiment, Cohen realized that, “ Eco RI was the missing ingredient needed for the molecular analysis of antibiotic resistance plasmids.”(DNA Cloning) He states that, large plasmids could be cut specifically and reproducibly by the enzyme, and that this method could be better than what he has been using the past few years for fragmentation of plasmid DNA
Stanley Norman Cohen is a scientist known for inventing recombinant DNA technology with Herb Boyer. Cohen was born on February 17, 1935 in a small town of Perth Amboy, New Jersey. During his childhood Cohen frequently helped his father assemble many things such as electrical fans, fluorescent mixtures and many more. Cohen developed an interest in Science from a very small age, but later switched from physics to biology and decided to become a medical doctor. Not only was Cohen interested in biology but he also enjoyed playing the banjo, ukulele and composing songs. He was also editor of his high school paper and associated as the yearbook editor. After high school Cohen decided to pursue pre-medicine studies at Rutgers College and in 1956 he graduated. Afterwards, he attended graduated school at the University of Pennsylvania School of medicine and received his MD in 1960. During is time at the university Cohen became more interested in research. While he was a the National Institute of Health he decided to combine basic research with clinical medicine, soon after he accepted a position for Stanford’s medical school in 1968 and began experimenting …show more content…
Later that day Cohen and Boyer met in a deli to discuss how they could collaborate together. In just four months they were able to successfully introduce foreign DNA into bacterial plasma using both of their methodologies. As both Herb and Cohen began discussing the experiment, Cohen realized that, “ Eco RI was the missing ingredient needed for the molecular analysis of antibiotic resistance plasmids.”(DNA Cloning) He states that, large plasmids could be cut specifically and reproducibly by the enzyme, and that this method could be better than what he has been using the past few years for fragmentation of plasmid DNA