John Abele

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John Abele is the co-founder and chairman of Boston Scientific, a medical device company. His father, LCDR Mannert Lincoln Abele, USN was Commanding Officer of the submarine USS Grunion when she was lost in the Aleutians on July 31, 1942 presumably to enemy action. Recent information has come to light that Grunion's wreck may have been located.

Abele co-founded Boston Scientific with Peter Nicholas.

He is a graduate of Amherst College (see [1]).