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Caventou, Joseph Bienaime
Born: 1795 AD
Died: 1877 AD, at 82 years of age.
Nationality: French
Categories: Chemists, Pharmacologist
Died: 1877 AD, at 82 years of age.
Nationality: French
Categories: Chemists, Pharmacologist
1795 - Joseph Bienaime Caventou was born in St. Omer, Northern France. French pharmacist and one of the earliest and most successful investigators of alkaloids.
- He became professor at the Ecole de Pharmacie, Paris.
1818-1820 - In collaboration with Pelletier, he discovered strychnine, brucine and, simultaneously with Meissner, veratrine, quinine and, after Gomes, cinchonine.
- He introduced the term chlorophyll.
1823 - They discovered nitrogen.
1877 - Joseph Bienaime Caventou died.
- He became professor at the Ecole de Pharmacie, Paris.
1818-1820 - In collaboration with Pelletier, he discovered strychnine, brucine and, simultaneously with Meissner, veratrine, quinine and, after Gomes, cinchonine.
- He introduced the term chlorophyll.
1823 - They discovered nitrogen.
1877 - Joseph Bienaime Caventou died.
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