Jokichi Takamine:
Jokichi Takamine was a Japanese-American biochemist.
Birth:
November 3, 1854 in Takaoka, Japan
Death:
July 22, 1922 in New York, New York
Claim to Fame:
Takamine was a Japanese-American biochemist who was the first to isolate the hormone adrenalin, or epinephrine from the suprarenal gland. It was the first pure hormone to be isolated from natural sources. He was also a prime contributors to plant flowering cherry trees as a gift to Washington D.C.
