Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison. McMaster University.
University of Wisconsin–Madison. McMaster University.
His work predicted that the ob gene encoded the hormone leptin, later co-discovered in 1994 by Jeffrey Friedman, Rudolph Leibel and their research teams at Rockefeller University. This work has had a major role in our understanding of the mechanisms regulating body weight and that cause of human obesity. Coleman was born in Stratford, Ontario.
He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from McMaster University in 1954 and his Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1958.
National Academy of Sciences]
He was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1998.