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| 1868 births | |
| hoffman, felix | |
| 1949 deaths | |
| german chemists | |
| german inventors | |
| national inventors hall of fame | |
| heroin | |
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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 . Eleven days later Hoffman invented Heroin. 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.A. 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 National Inventors Hall Of Fame . SEE ALSO
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