Bayer is a German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company headquartered in Leverkusen, founded in 1863 in Barmen by the dye salesman Friedrich Bayer and the dyer Johann Friedrich Weskott as a dyestuffs producer. It later expanded into pharmaceuticals, consumer healthcare, and agricultural chemicals and seeds, and in 1899 launched acetylsalicylic acid under the trademarked name Aspirin, a drug that remains on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines.
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Company TypePharmaceutical and biotechnology company 2 Founded Year Headquarters Company Type
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Which Bayer chemist is credited with making aspirin usable?
Felix Hoffmann is credited with first making acetylsalicylic acid usable; aspirin was patented in 1899.
A company history published by FundingUniverse credits Felix Hoffmann, a Bayer chemist, as the first to synthesize acetylsalicylic acid into a usable form at the turn of the twentieth century. The result, aspirin, was patented in 1899 and went on to become the most popular pain reliever worldwide. The same history places this work in the pharmaceutical department that Bayer created in 1888, after starting out in dyestuffs.
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Headquartered in Leverkusen, Bayer's areas of business include pharmaceuticals, consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals, seeds and biotechnology products.
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Bayer was founded in 1863 in Barmen as a partnership between dye salesman Friedrich Bayer
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