Tell us about an expert/person in your field that you admire

Hello everybody!

Today I am going to talk about the Felix Hoffman who was a German pharmacist who in 1897 was able to synthesize in a pure form acetylsalicylic acid, which became the active substance in Aspirin.

Felix Hoffman was born on January 21, 1868 in Ludwigsburg and died on February 8, 1946 in Switzerland.

In 1891 he graduated from the University of Munich. Two years later he received his doctorate. On the recommendation of the eventual Nobel Prize winner Professor Adolf von Baeyer he joined "Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co." in 1894 to work as a chemist, in the chemical laboratory.

The reason I admire him is because one of the motivations for synthesizing the drug was to relieve his father's arthritis.

The contribution of obtaining acetylsalicylic acid in a pure form was relevant to form the medicine that is part of our lives and the most consumed in the world, which is aspirin.

How Can Your Major Make the World a Better Place

 Hello again!

Everyone has been sick sometime during his life and when it happens it is always important to have a medicine at home to treat the disease, that is why chemistry and pharmacy affects mainly in the world in the area of health because it is oriented towards the study, development and application of drugs, and also a knowledge of their beneficial effects as well as toxic effects to human and animal health.

The career has several areas of work, the pharmaceutical chemist can work in pharmacies, clinics, pharmaceutical laboratories, university teaching and also in the development of cosmetics, among others.

Personally, I would like to work in a pharmacy, dispensing medicines.

Chemistry and pharmacy contribute to improve the health of people and animals, elaborating, dispensing or administering medicines every day and one of the most important things of the career is to be able to teach other people how to use medicines correctly.