Thomas Patrick Coohill

Thomas Patrick Coohill
Born	25 August 1941 Brooklyn, New York
Residence	United States
Nationality	American
Fields	Biophysics
Alma mater	Pennsylvania State University
Doctoral advisor	Ernest C. Pollard

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

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.All of his grandparents were Irish.

Coohill attended Saint Michael's College at the University of Toronto, where he met his future wife, Patricia Ann Trutty. He received his master's 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 Marine Biology Lab, 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 on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. His speciality 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.

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