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
John Jacob Faesch in Basel, Switzerland and had emigrated to the United States in 1764. In his later years he relocated to Boonton, New Jersey and died at Morristown NJ on the 29th May 1799. The Highlander Magazine "John Jacob Faesch, Ironmaster" by Ernst Kraus, 1974 Report of the State Geologist of NJ, 1910, Cook, 1911 John Jacob Faesch John Jacob Faesch (1729 – 1799) was a Swiss ironmaster who established the Mount Hope Iron Furnace in the Mount Hope village section of Rockaway Township, New Jersey in 1772 which played an important role in providing munitions and tools during the Revolutionary War.