Background
Victor Edward Cohn was born on August 4, 1919, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. He was a son of Louis Cohn and Lillian (Bessler) Cohn.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
In 1941, Victor received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota.
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Victor Edward Cohn was born on August 4, 1919, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. He was a son of Louis Cohn and Lillian (Bessler) Cohn.
In 1941, Victor received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota. Later, in 1986, he got an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Georgetown University.
In 1940, Victor was appointed an editor at the Minnesota Daily, the campus newspaper of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, a post he held till 1941. Between 1941 and 1942, he served as a desk man at the Minneapolis Star newspaper. During the period from 1942 till 1946, Victor served in the United States Naval Reserve.
Cohn joined the Minneapolis Tribune as a copyreader in 1946. The same year, he was appointed a reporter at the same newspaper and remained in that position until 1947, when he was promoted to the post of a science reporter there. In 1967, Cohn left the position.
From 1968 till 1972, Victor served as a science editor at the Washington Post, where, during the period from 1972 till 1984, Victor acted as a science-medical reporter. In 1984, Cohn was appointed a senior writer and columnist at the same newspaper, the posts he continued to hold till 1993.
In addition, between 1960 and 1996, Victor was a director of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, as well as a fellow of the council, beginning in 1996.
Besides his career as a journalist, editor and reporter, Cohn acted as an educator. In 1966, he was appointed a visiting lecturer at the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication, a post he held till 1967. In 1978, 1984 and 1996, Victor worked as a visiting fellow at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. From 1990 till 1991, he worked as a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University.
Moreover, between 1993 and 1994, Cohn acted as a research fellow at Georgetown University.
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Physical Characteristics: Victor suffered from lung cancer.
Victor married Marcella (Rigler) Cohn on August 30, 1941. Their marriage produced three children - Jeffrey, Deborah and Phyllis. Marcella died in September 1980.