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Name change to honor adrenaline discoverer.
; ...Adrenaline, a hormone discovered by Jokichi Takamine (1854-1922), will be used as the...scientist. But calls for recognition of Takamine's discovery have led the Health...adrenaline. Adrenaline is a hormone Takamine and his assistant Keizo Uenaka...
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Cherry Festival To Plant Tree For Founder
; ...vagrants. The trees were the gift of Jokichi Takamine, an internationally known chemist...from Japan. When she accepted, Takamine went to the mayor of Tokyo, Yukio...year. Then came the offer from Takamine for 2,000 trees, but they were...
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SLICE OF JAPANESE CULTURE BLOOMING CHERRY TREES, FRIENDSHIP CELEBRATED.(News)
; ...to the United States in the early 20th century. Jokichi Takamine, known for isolating adrenaline in 1901, helped donate the Washington trees, and his grandson, Jokichi ``Joe'' Takamine III, who practices medicine in Santa Monica, was...
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Celebrating 150 years of diplomatic relations Events throughout Chicago area mark sesquicentennial of Matthew Perry's historic landing on hte shores of Japan Events throughout Chicago area mark the sequicentennial of Matthew Perry's historic landing on the shores of Japan
; ...prominent figures in Japanese history, including former prime minister Takahashi Korekiyo, biotechnology pioneer Takamine Jokichi and Asada Eiji, who in 1893 became the first Ph.D. recipient at the University of Chicago. That was also the year...
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Washington Journal; The Cherry Blossoms Still Bloom
; ...a hillside on his own land in Chevy Chase, Md., where he was testing their hardiness. The trees did well, so Dr. Jokichi Takamine, the Japanese chemist famous as the discoverer of adrenaline, and Mr. Mizuno, Japanese consul in New York, met with...
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PICK OF THE DAY; Adrenaline Sky Sports 2, 9.30pm.(Sports)
; ...what happened to the scientist who discovered adrenaline. Jokichi Takamine, rather like a talent scout, spotted adrenaline's potential...launched it into the big time. And where was adrenaline when Jokichi - never more in need of his protege - suffered fatal a heart...
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Obituary: Professor Kenichi Fukui
; ...of prominent Meiji Period scientists who did original research, like Nagayoshi Nagai, the discoverer of ephedrine, Jokichi Takamine who produced the enzyme preparation Taka-Diastase and was the first to crystallise adrenaline, and the biochemist...
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