WÖHLER, Friedrich (1800 – 1882)
1800 – 1882
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1828 CE
#671
Ueber künstliche Bildung des Harnstoffs.
The synthetic preparation of urea was the first occasion that an organic compound was built up from inorganic materials. Wöhler’s discovery led eventually to the brilliant results that have been achieved in…
1842 CE
#678
Umwandlung der Benzoësäure in Hippursäure im lebenden Organismus.
Discovery that benzoic acid taken in with food is excreted in the urine as hippuric acid. (But see the footnote to p. 474 of Garrison’s History of medicine, 1929.)