Adam Cohen

Adam Ezra Cohen (born 1979) is a Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Biology, and Physics at Harvard University. He has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and been selected by MIT Technology Review to the TR35 list of the world's top innovators under 35. Education and academic career Education Cohen was born in 1979 in New York City, N.Y. He is the son of Joel E. Cohen, Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of Populations at Rockefeller University in New York. He attended Hunter College Elementary School and Hunter College High School, a gifted magnet school in New York City. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Harvard College with an A.B. in chemistry and physics. He received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, in 2003, and a Ph.D. in experimental physics from Stanford in 2006 with W.E. Moerner. Cohen completed a postdoctoral fellowship in chemistry at Stanford University in 2007. Research