Jokichi Takemine is best known for his isolation of the hormone epinephrine. He was also principally responsible for the Japanese government's gift of the cherry trees that bloom every spring in Washington, D.C. Takemine was born into a Samurai family...

1854-1922 Japanese-American chemist who isolated the chemical adrenaline from the suprarenal gland. Jokichi Takamine graduated from the College of Science and Engineering of the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1879. The university then sent him to...

Jokichi Takamine (高峰 譲吉 , Takamine Jōkichi?, December 221854–July 221922) was a Japanese chemist. He was born in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, Japan the son of a physician, and educated in Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo, graduating from the University...