Arthur F. Coca
Arthur Fernandez Coca (20 March 1875 – 11 December 1959) was an American immunologist known for his research on allergies. Biography Coca was born in Philadelphia. He was educated at Haverford College and obtained his M.D. from University of Pennsylvania in 1900. He studied at Heidelberg University and during 1907–1909 was an assistant to Emil von Dungern at the Cancer Institute of Heidelberg's chemical laboratory. He worked as a bacteriologist at the Bureau of Science in Manila and was instructor in Pathology and Bacteriology at Cornell University Medical College during 1910–1919. He was Professor of Immunology and Professor of Medicine at the New York Postgraduate Medical School, Columbia University from 1924 to 1935. He was also medical director of Lederle Laboratories until 1949. Coca specialized in studying allergies. He has been described as one of the pioneers of allergology. In 1953, he authored the book Familial Nonreaginic Food-Allergy. Coca and Robert Cooke coined the term atopy in 1923 when recognizing an association between allergic rhinitis and asthma. Science historian Arthur M. Silverstein has noted that Coca contributed "significantly to the development of allergy as a scientific discipline". Coca attempted to classify hypersensitive states to conditions such as dermatosis, hay fever