Constantin Fahlberg

✶December 22, 1850

†August 15, 1910

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About their life

Constantin Fahlberg was a Russian chemist who discovered the sweet taste of anhydroorthosulphaminebenzoic acid in 1877–78 when analysing the chemical compounds in coal tar at Johns Hopkins University for Professor Ira Remsen. Later Fahlberg gave this chemical "body" the trade name Saccharin.

Russian chemist (1850–1910)

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