Chemistry in relation to biology & medicine : with especial reference to insulin & other hormones / [by John Jacob Abel].

  • Abel, John Jacob, 1857-1938.
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[1939]
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Credit: Chemistry in relation to biology & medicine : with especial reference to insulin & other hormones / [by John Jacob Abel]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    papers. The above list by no means includes all the many pupils or assistants who were in the laboratory at one time or another, many of whom never collaborated with Abel in his researches, but developed fields of interest of their own quite different from those of 'The Professor.” Important contributions on other topics appeared in an unbroken stream from his laboratory during the forty years of his directorship. Many of his pupils have oc¬ cupied or now occupy important chairs of pharmacology, and even clinical medicine. Abel found his greatest enjoyment in actively carrying on research with his own hands and became completely wrapped up in the major problem engaging his interest. In spite of his wide interests, he refused to allow himself to be side-tracked from his major objective of the time, which would appear to explain why he did not figure in the usual accompaniments of a successful scientist- medical societies, committees, boards, etc. In view of this rather limited activity outside of his laboratory and study, it is curious to see his intense interest in scientific journals and in the organization of national scientific societies. He served from 1896-1905 as associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Medicine when it was first established. He founded the Journal of Biological Chemistry with Herter in 1905 but withdrew from active editorship in 1909 to found The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, which he edited for twenty-three years. He issued the call and addressed the first gathering at which the American Society of Bio¬ logical Chemists was founded, and formed the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Thera¬ peutics. Here was something which he evidently re¬ garded as of equal value to his research. Correspondence with many friends and acquaintances both in this country