Awards & Winners

Albert Coons

Date of Birth 28-June-1912
Place of Birth Gloversville
(Fulton County, New York)
Nationality
Also know as Dr. Albert Coons
Profession Physician
Albert Hewett Coons was an American physician, pathologist, and immunologist. He was the first person to conceptualize and develop immunofluorescent techniques for labeling antibodies in the early 1940s.

Awards by Albert Coons

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1962


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(In recognition of his contributions to the knowledge of pathology and immunology, and especially for his development of the fluorescent antibody technique which has cast new light on hypersensitivity reactions, and which has opened important new avenues for the study of diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, glomerulonephritis, rheumatic fever and disseminated lupus erythematosus, in which these reactions may be involved.)

1959


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For his contributions in immunology and specifically for his development of the fluorescent method of labelling proteins, a significant tool for the study of infection in human beings.)