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Elwood Johnson
Elwood Vernon Jensen (January 13, 1920 – December 16, 2012) was an American medical scientist and the George and Elizabeth Chair in Cancer Research at the Vontz Center for Molecular Biology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. In 2004, he received the Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for his research on the estrogen receptor. Born in Fargo, North Dakota, Jensen received a bachelor's degree from Wittenberg University in 1940 and a doctorate in organic chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1944. Janssen studied steroid hormones in Chicago starting in 1947, where he isolated estrogen receptors and discovered their importance in breast cancer.
- Category
- Scientists
- Nationality
- United States
- Born
- 1920-01-13
- Died
- 2012-12-16
- Wikidata
- Q264842
