Abstract
The First Years of the Journal of Biological Chemistry
Highlights
Two men were responsible for the establishment of the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) in 1905: John Jacob Abel (1857–1938) (Fig. 1) and Christian Archibald Herter (1865– 1910) (Fig. 2)
The joint effort to promote the new science of biochemistry in the United States brought together a pharmacologist and a physician of rather different social background but with a shared enthusiasm about the place of modern chemistry in medical research and education
Abel derived particular stimulation from Schmiedeberg’s insistence on the academic status of pharmacology and profited greatly from Schmiedeberg’s and Nencki’s chemical programs of research. He published three chemical papers from the Berne Laboratory and before returning to the United States did some joint research with Edmund Drechsel in Leipzig (3)
Summary
Two men were responsible for the establishment of the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) in 1905: John Jacob Abel (1857–1938) (Fig. 1) and Christian Archibald Herter (1865– 1910) (Fig. 2). Abel worked in Oswald Schmiedeberg’s Laboratory of Pharmacology in Strassburg near Hoppe-Seyler’s Laboratory of Physiological Chemistry. He published three chemical papers from the Berne Laboratory and before returning to the United States did some joint research with Edmund Drechsel in Leipzig (3).
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