1. Albert Hewett Coons was an American physician, pathologist, and immunologist.
15 Facts About Albert Coons
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Albert Coons was the first person to conceptualize and develop immunofluorescent techniques for labeling antibodies in the early 1940s.
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Albert Coons's father was the president of a glove-manufacturing company, and his grandfather, Eugene Coons, was a physician.
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Thereafter, Albert pursued residency training in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Albert Coons took a vacation trip to Berlin, Germany, in 1939, where he had a scientific epiphany.
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Nonetheless, undeterred, Albert Coons returned to Boston to tackle the project.
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In 1942, Albert Coons's research was interrupted by a call to serve in the Medical Corps of the United States Army during World War II.
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Albert Coons shipped out to the southwest Pacific Theater with the 105th General US Army Hospital, as its chief laboratory officer.
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Albert Coons was discharged from the Army at the end of 1945 with the rank of Major.
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Albert Coons was awarded the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the World War II Victory Medal.
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Albert Coons progressed through the academic ranks at Harvard Medical School, and in 1953 was appointed Career Investigator for the American Heart Association.
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Albert Coons completed additional work on in vitro and in vivo antibody production and the condition of immunological "tolerance".
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Albert Coons was admitted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1962.
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Albert Coons was president of the American Association of Immunologists and a councillor and president of the Histochemistry Society, and was given several other awards and international honorary academic degrees.
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Albert Coons died of coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure in September, 1978, in Brookline, Massachusetts.