Abel, Jacob

C. John Jacob Abel occupied the first chair of a department of pharmacology in the United States. 

A PVT EOS for a single species, based on concepts of molecular interactions, rather than semi-empirical modifications of the Abel EOS, was developed by Jacobs (Ref 17). It was then broadened to obtain relationships for detonation products by inclusion of mixt rules for n moles of s species. The most recent modification is called the JCZ-3 EOS (Jacobs—Cowperthwaite— Zwlsler). For a general summary of JCZ-3 we quote from Ref 19 ... 

Meyer T, Jacob F (2006) Gestaltung globaler Produktionsnetzwerke. In Abele E, Kluge J, Naher U (eds) Handbuch Globale Produktion. Carl Hanser, Mtinchen und Wien, pp 144-198... 

In his 46 years at Strasbourg, Schmiedeberg trained a number of preeminent scientists who populated the great centers of scientific learning throughout many countries. One of these was John Jacob Abel. Abel became the first chairman of pharmacology... 

John Jacob Abel is known as the lather of American pharmacology. He was the first professor of pharmacology in the United States and founder of the first department of pharmacology at the University of Michigan. Abel also founded the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics in 1908. 

The evidence for histamine being present in the gastric mucosa had initially been presented by John Jacob Abel on April 25,1919. Abel was convinced that all the motilines, peristaltic hormones, vaso dilantins and histamine-like substances in tissues were one and the same substance-histamine. ... 

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