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The death is announced from New York of Dr. Jokichi Takamine, at the age of sixty-eight years. Born in Japan, Dr. Takamine was educated at the Imperial University and afterwards in Glasgow at Anderson College. While in Glasgow he worked at the enzymes of fungi and introduced the useful preparation known as “taka-diastase.” He returned to Japan in 1881 and, after marrying an American lady, went to the United States in 1890, became attached to Messrs. Parke, Davis and Co. as consulting chemist, and set up a laboratory of his own. His chief scientific achievement was the separation of adrenaline from the supra-renal bodies. Much of his time was spent in travelling between the United States and Japan. He thus played an important part in facilitating the relations between these countries.
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Obituaries. Nature 110, 361 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110361c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/110361c0