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Portrait of Mildred Cohn

Douglas A. Lockard · CC BY-SA 3.0

Mildred Cohn

American biochemist

1913 – 2009aged 96

A biochemist who pioneered the use of nuclear magnetic resonance to study how enzymes drive chemical reactions inside living cells, particularly reactions involving ATP, at a time when few tools existed to observe biochemistry in such detail. She received the National Medal of Science in 1982 and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

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