Cohen, Carolyn (1929– )

US biophysicist. She used electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction to elucidate sites of cell protein synthesis and to demonstrate both contractile proteins in muscle and fibrous protein development during blood coagulation

She was born in Long Island City, New York. She was a Fulbright scholar in London 1954–55, and a researcher at the Children's Cancer Research Foundation (CCRF), Boston, Massachusetts, 1955–56. After teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1957–58), she returned to CCRF (1958–74) while concurrently performing research at various Boston area institutions and becoming a professor at Brandeis University (1972).