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Jokichi Takamine

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Takamine, Jokichi

(1854–1922) chemist, industrialist; born in Takaoka, Japan. Already well established as a leading industrialist chemist in Japan, he married an American and moved to the U.S.A. in 1885. Working mainly with Parke, Davis & Co., he also continued to aid Japan in the development of its chemical research and industries. He is best known for developing the enzyme known as takadiastase and for being the first to isolate a pure hormone, adrenaline (epinephrine), from the suprarenal gland (1901).
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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