Born in 1795 in Saint-Omer, dead in 1878 in Paris, Joseph Bienaimé Cavenou, associated to his colleague Pelletier, formed a famous couple for theirs discoveries of quinine, strychnine, brucine, veratrine and cevadic acid. The discovery of the principle of the quinine from the bark of the quinquina tree allowed to fight the plague of the paludism which devastated the colonial explorers. Moreover, he introduced the chlorophyll term into the vocabulary.

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