Felix Hoffmann
German chemist, creator of aspirin and heroin (1868–1946) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 "heroin". 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.
For other people named Felix Hoffmann, see Felix Hoffmann (disambiguation).