John Jacob Abel the position of chair of the department until he retired at the age of 75 in 1932. Ever since his early years in Europe, Abel showed great interest in isolating pure form of internal gland hormones. The first work that led to his international reputation as a pharmacologist and biochemist was the isolation of epinephrine from adrenal medulla. However, he was only able to isolate a monobenzoyl derivative of epinephrine. While he was improving his processes on decomposing the benzoyl derivative to obtain salts of epinephrine using saponification, a Japanese chemist J. Takamine, who had visited his lab, was able
Jake Abel Jake Abel Jacob Allen Abel (born November 18, 1987) is an American actor and singer who is known for playing Adam Milligan in the CW series "Supernatural" (2009–10), Luke Castellan in the film adaptation of "" (2010), and its sequel, "" (2013), Mark James in the film adaptation of "I Am Number Four" (2011), Ian O'Shea in "The Host" (2013), and Mike Love in Love & Mercy. Abel was born in Canton, Ohio, the son of Kim and Mike Abel. He has a brother, Scott. His first credited role was in the Disney Channel Original Movie "Go Figure", playing Spencer.