Jörgen Lehmann

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Jörgen Erik Lehmann (15 January 1898 – 26 December 1989) was a Danish-born Swedish chemist best-known for his discovery in the 1940s that para-amino salicylic acid (PAS) would make an excellent orally-available tuberculosis therapy.

At the Göteborg University Lehmann studied under Torsten Thunberg, professor of physiology, who discovered the dehydrogenases. Lehmann was head of the central laboratory at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg 1938-1963.

Jörgen Lehmann was son of Edvard Lehmann, professor of History of Religions at Lund University and grand-nephew of the Danish politician Orla Lehmann.

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• "Lehmann, Jörgen", in Nationalencyklopedin, accessed 12 January 2006.