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Pierre Jean Robiquet (13 January 1780 – 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. == Academic titles and distinctions == Registered Pharmacist (1808), lecturer in chemistry at the École Polytechnique (1811), Deputy Professor in History of pharmaceutical matters (1811) then Professor (1814) then Administrator-Treasurer (1824) at the Ecole de Pharmacie now the Faculté de Pharmacie see (), member then Secretary General (1817) and President (1826) of the Société de Pharmacie later on known as Académie Nationale de Pharmacie see (), member of the Académie de Médecine (1820), member of the Académie des Sciences (1833), one of the founders and first President of the Société de Prévoyance des Pharmaciens see ()(1820). Distinguished with the order of the Légion d'Honneur (1830). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pierre Jean Robiquet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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