acetylsalicylic acid / Arthur Eichengrun / Aspirin / Bayer / C.R. Alder Wright / diacetylmorphine / Diamorphine / Felix Hoffman / G.H. Beckett / heroin

Serendipitous Germans

Diamorphine, also known as heroin, was first synthesized for commercial use in 1897. The men who discovered it, Felix Hoffman and Arthur Eichengrun, had also, a couple of weeks earlier, invented aspirin; for some...