Elliot Saul Vesell (December 24, 1933 – July 23, 2018) was an American pharmacologist. A

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native born on December 24, 1933, Vesell attended

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and Philips Exeter Academy before enrolling at

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, where he studied American literature and history. Vesell then earned a medical degree from

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and completed postdoctoral research at

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. After a stint at

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, Vesell worked for the

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. George T. Harrell invited Vesell to join the faculty of

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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

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."Elliot Vesell"
. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved July 29, 2018. Vesell stepped down as pharmacology department chair in 2004, and was succeeded by

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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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