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 "Grey's Anatomy" in the episode "Poker Face", playing Tyler Moser. In 2012, Abel was chosen to play Ian O'Shea in the 2013 film adaptation of "The Host", based on Stephenie Meyer's novel of the same name. Abel married Allie Wood, a writer, on November 9, 2013. On March 29, 2013, Abel and Wood released their first CD, Black Magic. 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, ""