Stanley Jacob

Stanley W. Jacob (January 7, 1924 – February 6, 2015) was an American surgeon specializing in organ transplantation. He studied dimethyl sulfoxide (also known as DMSO) as head of the organ transplant team at Oregon Health & Science University in the 1960s.^[1] He was appointed the Gerlinger Professor of the Department of Surgery at OHSU in 1981.^[2] He wrote and edited many books and papers on DMSO and was a book reviewer for JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) until his death.^{[citation needed]}

Jacob was an Army Colonel and served in the Korean War as a captain.^[3]