notable pharmacists

Friedrich Serturner

morphine in opium poppy/ Papaver somniferum L. Friedrich Serturner was a German pharmacist who first isolated morphine from opium in 1804, making significant contributions to the field of pharmacology.

johann buchner

salicin from willow bark; he was a German pharmacist who discovered salicin in the early 19th century, which later led to the development of aspirin.

pierre pellertier

quinine from cinchona bark; (Cinchona pubescens) Pierre Pellertier was a French pharmacist who played a crucial role in isolating and identifying quinine as a treatment for malaria in the early 19th century.

joseph caventou

a French pharmacist known for the isolation of several alkaloids including quinine and strychnine. He collaborated with Pierre Pelletier in the study of cinchona bark. (caffiene/ Coffea arabica)

pierre robiquet

codeine from opium poppy; a French pharmacist who contributed to the isolation of codeine, an important opiate used for pain relief in the 19th century. (opium poppy/ Papaver somniferum L.)

pharmacognosy, who first coined the term?

The study of medicinal drugs obtained from plants and other natural sources, coined by johann adam shmidt

theophrastus

father of botany, enquirty into: HISTORIA PLANTARUM & DE CAUSIS PLANTARUM, basic concept of morphology

Pedanius Dioscorides

DE MATERIA MEDICA, 3 HEADINGS, AROMATIC, CULINARY & MEDICINAL

Claudius Galen

GREEK PHARMACIST-PHYSICIAN, ANTIDOTARIA & RECEPTARIA, GALENICAL PHARMACY/GALENICALS

PLINY THE ELDER

37 VOLUMES OF NATURAL HISTORY/ NATURALIS HISTORIA. ROMAN NATURALIST

CAROLUS LINNAEUS

FATHER OF TAXONOMY, SWEDISH BOTANIST, 6K SPECIES IN HIS BOOK SPECIES PLANTARUM

MATTHIAS SCHLEIDEN

CONCLUDED ALL PLANTS WERE MADE OF CELLS, COFOUNDER OF SCHWANN AND RUDOLF

THEODORE SHWANN

CONCLUDED ALL ANIMALS WERE MADE OF CELLS

RUDOLF VIRCHOW

CONCLUDED THAT CELLS AFRE DIVIDING, CAME FROM PREEXISTING CELLS

ROBERT HOOKE

FATHER OF CYTOLOGY, FIRST TO VIEW CELLS

LEON MA, GUERRERO

FATHER OF PHILLIPINE BOTANY , FIRST FILLIPINO PHARMACIST,

ANTONIO LUNA

LICENTIATE IN PHARMACY IN MADRID 1890

EDUARDO QUISUMBING

MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE PHILIPPINES, FILIPINO BOTANIST