In 1960, Cohn and Primkoff moved to Philidelphia because both of them had received tenure professorships at the University of Pennsylvania. As am associate professor of biophysics and physical biochemistry at their School of Medicine, Cohn mentored many young women to follow their calling on science and not allow any barrier to come in between them. One of her female graduate student said that “ she was an incredibly warm person, um, but she was also very demanding, scientifically demanding. And I knew if I was going to show her data, I had better be able to answer a lot of questions about that data, and I had better have planned the next logical experiment.” Not only did she receive the upmost respect from her students, but from all of her colleagues. Though she was a small woman, she filled up any room with her wit and intelligence, she would always help and give ideas to anyone she talked …show more content…
I mean he didn’t just pay lip service to that; he really meant it.” She retired and closes down her laboratory in 1985, but kept an open office at the university where she would sometimes visit to mentor graduate students and post docs right until a few months before her death. For her 90th birthday, Cohn requested for her children to have her go hangliding. After a twenty minute flight all she could say was that “she wished it had lasted much longer.” The day before she passed away, Cohn was inducted into the Women’s Hall of fame in Seneca Falls, NY. When she saw “ that Hilary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey were also members, she decided that this could be a good place for her.” Sadly she never was able to get her free car, as she died on October 12, 2009, leaving behind a legacy of learning and inspiring a myriad of young women to follow in her