About Max Bockmühl
Lived 1882 – 1949 (aged 66). Max Bockmühl was a German chemist, pharmacist and inventor.
Max Bockmühl (2 September 1882 – 5 January 1949) was a German inventor and chemist.
Life Bockmühl studied chemistry and pharmacy. He worked as chemist in Germany. Together with Gustav Ehrhart working for I.G. Farbenindustrie AG at the Farbwerke Hoechst, the pair developed Methadone in Germany, 1937, a drug synthesised from 1,1-diphenylbutane-2-sulfonic acid and dimethylamino-2-chloropropane, as they were looking for a synthetic opioid that could be created with readily available precursors, to solve Germany's opium shortage problem. Bockmühl was married.
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German chemist and inventor (1882-1949)
When was Max Bockmühl born?
Max Bockmühl was born on 2 September 1882 in Barmen.
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Max Bockmühl died on 5 January 1949 in Bad Soden am Taunus.
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Max Bockmühl was a chemist, pharmacist and inventor.
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Max Bockmühl was German.
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