Pierre Jean Robiquet Birthday, Date of Birth
Pierre Jean Robiquet (13 January 1780 – 29 April 1840) was a French chemist. He laid founding work in identifying amino acids, the fundamental building blocks of proteins. He did this through recognizing the first of them, asparagine, in 1806, in the industry's adoption of industrial dyes, with the identification of alizarin in 1826, and in the emergence of modern medications, through the identification of codeine in 1832, a drug of widespread use with analgesic and antidiarrheal properties.
Robiquet was born in Rennes. He was at first a pharmacist in the French armies during the French Revolution years and became a professor at the École de pharmacie in Paris, where he died. (For biography details refer to the French Wikipedia article)
Notable scientific achievements were among other things his isolation and characterization of properties of asparagine (the first amino acid to be identified, from asparagus, achieved. In 1806, with Louis Nicolas Vauquelin), cantharidin (1810), the Sigma-1 receptor agonist noscapine (1817), caffeine (1821), alizarin (later on moved to mass industrial production by Carl Gräbe and Carl Theodore Liebermann in Germany, and by William Henry Perkin in Great Britain) and purpurin (1826), Orcin (1829), amygdalin (1830), as well as codeine (1832). Some of these discoveries were made in collaboration with other scientists.
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- Thursday, January 13, 1780
- Place of Birth
- Rennes
- Age
- 241
- Star Sign
- ♑
The January 13, 1780 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♑. It was the 12 day of the year. President of the United States was N/A.
If you were born on this day, you are 241 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, January 13, 2021, 5 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, January 13, 2022, in 359 days. You have lived for 88,029 days, or about 2,112,701 hours, or about 126,762,070 minutes, or about ∞ seconds.
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