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.
[1] After a stint at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Vesell worked for the National Institutes of Health.
[1][2] George T. Harrell invited Vesell to join the faculty of Pennsylvania State University in 1968 as founding chair of the Department of Pharmacology.
[5] Vesell retired from Penn State in December 2008,[2] and died on July 23, 2018, aged 84.