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.
a very important discovery, German science is quite practical.
ResponderEliminarFelix Hoffman really made a great contribution to society through the synthesis of acetylsalicylic acid, and I find his motivation to do so admirable as well.
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