Everything about Felix Hoffmann totally explained
Felix Hoffmann (
January 21,
1868 –
February 8,
1946) was a
German chemist, who first synthesized medically useful forms of
heroin and
aspirin. He was born in
Ludwigsburg and studied
Chemistry in
Munich. In 1894, he joined the
Bayer pharmaceutical research facility in
Elberfeld.
He is best known for having synthesized
acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) on
August 10,
1897 for the first time in a stable form usable for medical applications. Bayer marketed this substance as
Aspirin.
Both substances had been synthesized earlier, but not in forms that could be used for medication. ASA had first been synthesized by
Frenchman Charles Frédéric Gerhardt in
1853, and diacetylmorphine (that is, heroin) by C.R. Alder Wright, a
British chemist in 1873.
Shortly after these discoveries, he changed to the pharmaceutical marketing department, where he stayed until his retirement in 1928. In 2002, he was inducted into the
US National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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