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Leonard Cohen

composerBorn: 9/21/1934Birthplace: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Popular Canadian poet and songwriter whose first book of poetry was Let Us Compare Mythologies (1956). A graduate of McGill University,…

Cohen, Stanley

(Encyclopedia) Cohen, Stanley, 1922–2020, American biochemist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Univ. of Michigan, 1948. Cohen did his most important work at Washington Univ. with Rita Levi-Montalcini in the…

Cohen, Hermann

(Encyclopedia) Cohen, HermannCohen, Hermannkōˈən [key], 1842–1918, German philosopher. He was a founder of the Neo-Kantian Marburg school and was known for his commentaries on Kant. His own works…

Stanley N. Cohen

Born: 1935Birthplace: Perth Amboy, N.J. Recombinant DNA technology—Biochemists Boyer and Cohen combined their expertise in 1973 to create the first genetically engineered organism. They did this…

Cohen, Leonard Norman

(Encyclopedia) Cohen, Leonard Norman, 1934–2016, Canadian songwriter, singer, and poet, b. Montreal, B.A. McGill Univ., 1955. He initially wrote poetry, publishing his first collection, Let Us…

Cohen, William Sebastian

(Encyclopedia) Cohen, William Sebastian, 1940–, American politician, b. Bangor, Maine. He attended Bowdoin College (B.A., 1962) and Boston Univ. (LL.B., 1965). A Republican, he was elected to the…

Cohen, Morris Raphael

(Encyclopedia) Cohen, Morris Raphael, 1880–1947, American philosopher, b. Minsk, Russia, grad. College of the City of New York, 1900, Ph.D. Harvard, 1906. He emigrated to the United States in 1892.…

William Sebastian COHEN, Congress, ME (1940)

Senate Years of Service: 1979-1997Party: RepublicanCOHEN, William Sebastian, a Representative and a Senator from Maine; born in Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, August 28, 1940; attended the…

Cohen, Samuel Theodore

(Encyclopedia) Cohen, Samuel Theodore, 1921–2010, American physicist known as the “father of the neutron bomb,” b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1943. He worked on the…

Cortizo Cohen, Laurentino

(Encyclopedia) Cortizo Cohen, Laurentino, 1953–, Panamanian rancher and political leader. A member of the Democratic Revolutionary party, he studied business administration in the United States and…