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Felix Hoffmann facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Felix Hoffmann | |
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| Born | 21 January 1868 |
| Died | 8 February 1946(1946-02-08) (aged 78) |
Felix Hoffmann (21 January 1868 – 8 February 1946) was a German chemist notable for re-synthesising diamorphine (independently from C.R. Alder Wright who synthesized it 23 years earlier), which was popularized under the Bayer trade name of "...". He is also credited with synthesizing aspirin, though whether he did this under his own initiative or under the instruction of Arthur Eichengrün is contested.
Career
Felix Hoffmann was born on 21 January 1868 in Ludwigsburg, Germany, the son of an industrialist. In 1889, he started studying chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich to study pharmacy and ended it in 1890 with the pharmaceutical state exam. In 1891 he graduated magna cum laude from the University of Munich. Two years later he earned his doctorate, also magna cum laude, after completing his thesis entitled "On certain derivatives of dihydroanthracene". In 1894, he joined Bayer as a research chemist.
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Felix Hoffman
No doctor’s office or medicine cabinet is complete without a supply of aspirin, the world’s most popular and, in many ways, miraculous painkiller. This multi-purpose drug was first stabilized and patented during a three-year span from 1897 to 1900 by Felix Hoffman, a chemist with Friedrich Bayer & Co. in Germany.
Born on January 21, 1868 in Ludwigsburg, Germany, Hoffman studied pharmacy and chemistry at the University of Munich, from where he graduated in 1893 with a doctoral degree. In 1894, he began working as a chemist for Bayer in Elberfeld, Germany. His father’s suffering from the pain of arthritis inspired him to seek a chemical substance that could safely treat everyday pain.
Hoffman began studying historical records and research related to pain treatment, including works by Hippocrates, a Greek physician who lived in approximately 400 B.C. Documentation showed that medicines made from the bark and leaves of willow trees had been used since that time to treat pain and fever, and much later, in the early 19th century, a substance known as sal
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Aspirin
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Probably the best known brand in medicine
It is more than 120 years ago now that the probably best known drug brand in the world was registered: Aspirin. The brand name, which was entered in the trademark register of the Kaiserliches Patentamt (Imperial Patent Office) in Berlin on 6 March 1899, has long since become an international generic term. Acetylsalicylic acid is effective against fever, pain and inflammation and is probably the best-selling medicine in history.
However, this anniversary marks only one milestone in a long history. Salicin, which is converted into salicylic acid in the body, is found in the bark of willows. Its therapeutic effect has been known since time immemorial. The progenitor of all physicians, Hippocrates of Kos, described it around 400 B.C. as a medicine against fever and pain; Teutons and Celts cooked a broth from willow bark as medicine.
Aspirin has many fathers
Certificate of Kaiserliches Patentamt for registration of the trademmark Aspirin, 1899
The centuries-old knowledge handed down was scientifically tested and
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