biography
| name: |
Caventou, Joseph (Bienaimé)
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pronunciation:
[kavãtoo]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1795–1877)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in St Omer, N France. He became professor at the Ecole de Pharmacie, Paris. In 1817, in collaboration with Pierre Joseph Pelletier, he introduced the term chlorophyll. They also discovered quinine (1820), strychnine, brucine, and cinchonine. |
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