Thomas Patrick Coohill

Thomas Patrick Coohill (born 25 August 1941) is considered one of the world's experts on the effects of light on living systems.

Biography

Thomas Patrick Coohill, son of Francis Coohill and Mary Donnelly, was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 25 August 1941. He has/had four brothers, Francis, William, Edmund and Kevin, and three sisters, Joan, Margaret and Virginia.

Coohill attended Saint Michael's College at the University of Toronto, where he met his future wife, Patricia Ann Trutty. He received his Masters Degree at the University of Toledo. His first two sons, Joseph and Thomas Jr., were born in Toledo. He received his PhD in Biophysics at Pennsylvania State University under the tutelage of renowned physicist, Ernest C. Pollard. He then went to work in Pittsburgh, where his third and final son, Matthew, was born.

Coohill has worked in various places: the Medical School at the University of Pittsburgh; the Pittsburgh Veterans Administration Hospital, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Western Kentucky University and at Siena College. He was President of the American Society for Photobiology in 1989; Sigma Xi speaker in 1990-91. Currently he is a member of the Review Committee of the United Nations for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. His specialty is the effects of ultraviolet radiation on cells and viruses. He has published over 100 reviewed articles, book chapters, and books. He is a sought after consultant to industry and governments and has been a featured speaker in over 40 countries.

He has published two novels, [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1411676181 The Wolves of Pilovo] and [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1430311177 The 5th World] .

An intrepid traveler, his goal is to visit over 100 countries; he has 19 to go. As a rite of passage at age 12, he takes each of his grandchildren on a two-week trip, alone.

Publications

* Co-edited with Dennis P. Valenzeno "Photobiology for the 21st Century", Valdenmar Publishing Company, 2001, ISBN 0-9632105-4-8 (hardback), ISBN 0-9632105-5-6 (paperback), Library of Congress Control Number: 2001090397

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DATE OF BIRTH=25 August, 1941
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