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IN the old organic chemistry laboratory at the University of Leeds there was a life-size bust of Liebig. It was perched high up on the top of some reagent shelves and it seemed as if the great ‘master’ of organic chemistry looked down and said, “All is well here”. In many ways that bust was symbolic of the sway exercised in the laboratory by J. B. Cohen. He would have wished no better thing to be said of him than that he had tried to carry on the traditions made by Liebig for organic chemistry in the eighteen-fifties. Nicknames are often given to professors by their students as a sign of affection, but Cohen never received one from his. He was a little too austere for that. Instead he was usually called “Julius” his first name. In a sense this was a greater sign of affection. It struck a deeper note of regard.
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R., H. Prof. J. B. Cohen, F.R.S.. Nature 136, 171–172 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136171a0
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