John Jacob Abel to successfully isolate the neutral base of epinephrine by adding ammonium to highly concentrated extract, a method Abel himself tried but failed due to the use of low concentration of extract. After Takamine's success, Abel himself remarked, with great candor, "The efforts of years on my part in this once mysterious field of suprarenal, medullary biochemistry, marred by blunders as they were, eventuated, then, in the isolation of the hormone not in the form of the free base but in that of its monobenzoyl derivative." Together with L.G. Rowntree and B.B. Turner, Abel devised what they called a "vividiffusion" apparatus,
Abel Bosum forestry companies. In 1985, after a change in the leadership of the Quebec provincial government to the Quebec liberal party, Abel Bosum tried to negotiate with the new premier, Robert Bourassa. These negotiations did not last long before an impasse was reached and so Abel Bosum decided to take another approach. Abel Bosum then decided to get into contact with someone who had been involved with the original JBNQA negotiations. Member of Provincial Parliament John Ciaccia, had negotiated on behalf of Quebec and was able to inform Abel Bosum of what obstacles needed to be overcome in order to solve