Friedrich Gaedcke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German chemist
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Place of Birth: Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Friedrich Gaedcke
- Friedrich Georg Carl (Friedrich) Gaedcke (5 June 1828 – 19 September 1890) was a German chemist.
- He was the first person to isolate the cocaine alkaloid which happened in 1855. Gaedcke named the alkaloid “erythroxyline,” and published a description in the journal Archiv der Pharmazie.Gaedcke worked in a pharmacy in Rostock and studied in Rostock between 1850 and 1851.
- In 1856, he took over a pharmacy in Dömitz which he ran for 3 4 years.
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