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View all Discover Chemistry. Mildred Cohn — My career has been affected at every stage by the fact that I am a woman, beginning with my undergraduate education…My greatest piece of luck was marrying Henry Primakoff, an excellent scientist who treated me as an intellectual equal and always assumed that I should pursue a scientific career and behaved accordingly.

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She joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania as an associate professor of biophysics and physical biochemistry. She became a full professor the following year. Forging her career in the face of overwhelming obstacles, Mildred Cohn was one of a tiny minority of women who succeeded in science despite the odds. Even though she had an outstanding undergraduate record, she was unable to obtain a scholarship for graduate studies, and teaching assistantships were offered only to men.

Louis until , when she and husband went to the University of Pennsylvania. She became a full professor the following year. Mildred Cohn published over scientific articles, covering research on isotopes, ATP adenosine diphosphate and triphosphate , and oxidative phosphorylation.