Elliot Vesell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American pharmacologist
Date of Birth: 24-Dec-1933
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: 23-Jul-2018
Profession: pharmacologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Elliot Vesell
- Elliot Saul Vesell (December 24, 1933 – July 23, 2018) was an American pharmacologist. A New York City native born on December 24, 1933, Vesell attended Horace Mann School and Philips Exeter Academy before enrolling at Harvard University, where he studied American literature and history.
- Vesell then earned a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed postdoctoral research at Rockefeller University.
- After a stint at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Vesell worked for the National Institutes of Health.
- George T.
- Harrell invited Vesell to join the faculty of Pennsylvania State University in 1968 as founding chair of the Department of Pharmacology.
- He was appointed to the Bernard B.
- Brodie Professorship, followed by PSU most prestigious title, the Evan Pugh Professorship, in 1981.
- In 1990, he was made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- Vesell stepped down as pharmacology department chair in 2004, and was succeeded by Kent Vrana in an endowment named for Vesell.
- Vesell retired from Penn State in December 2008, and died on July 23, 2018, aged 84.
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