Elwood V. Jensen
In 2006 Elwood V. Jensen was named a Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate in Medicine. Below are more details.
- Role: John and Gladys Strauss Professor of Cancer Research, Vontz Center for Molecular Studies, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Charles Huggins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Prizes & Affiliations: Joint winner (along with Chambon & Evans) of 2004 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
Distinction: Jensen was the pioneer with his work on estrogen in the late 1950s, so his citation count does not reveal him in the same way as Evans and Chambon, whose ground-breaking papers came in the last two and a half decades.