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Revision as of 18:57, 30 May 2007 by SmackBot (talk | contribs) (Date/fix the maintenance tags or gen fixes)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The German chemist Friedrich Gaedcke was the first person to isolate the cocaine alkaloid which happened in 1855.
Gaedcke named the alkaloid “erythroxyline,” and published a description in the journal Archives de Pharmacie.