Stanley Rossiter Benedict
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| Stanley Rossiter Benedict | |
| Born | March 17, 1884 Cincinnati, USA |
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| Died | December 21, 1936 (aged 52) USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | Cornell University |
| Alma mater | University of Cincinnati |
Stanley Rossiter Benedict (17 March 1884 – 21 December 1936) is an American chemist best known for discovering Benedict's reagent, a solution that detects certain sugars.
Benedict was born in Cincinnati, and went to the University of Cincinnati. After a year, he went to Yale's Department of Physiological Chemistry for training in metabolism and physiology.
[edit] References
- Robert D. Simoni, Robert L. Hill, and Martha Vaughan (2002). "Benedict's Solution, a Reagent for Measuring Reducing Sugars: the Clinical Chemistry of Stanley R. Benedict". J. Biol. Chem. 277 (16): e5-e6.
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