Chemistry Heroes

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This is a list of medicinal scientists who have made notable contributions to the world through the medicinal plants idea archetype, which will not be explicitly described hereinl, but is implicit within the Heroes stories.

• Dr Mark Nelson - tetracycline, plague, highlighted ancient Nubian use of antibiotic beer, showing Alexander Fleming was just a dirty dude who got lucky
• Alice An Ball - The Ball Method - Leprosy
• Professor Yu Yu Tu - artemisinin, saves millions of lives from malaria every year
• Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner - morphine, pain
• Fredrich Kekule - not really medicinal but natural products so hes in‍
• K. Bodendorf and P. Krieger
• Richard Evans Schultes - multidisciplinary founding father of pharmacognosy/ethnopharmacology/ethnomedicine
• Albert Hoffman Obviously - first to characterize psilocybin, discovered LSD
• William Leonard Piccard piggy backs on him, chemistry hero for producing 95% of americas LSD during prohibition, predicted fentanyl crisis
• Quininoe, Strychnine, Caffeine Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788–1842) and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795–1877)
• Nichols and Shulgin - over 200 synthetic psychadleics, including a refined means of syntehsizing MDMA
• the great Linus Pauling - Vitamin C
• Dr. Arthur Hefftner - mescaline isolation first to isolate a hallucinogenic alkaloid and demonstrate that it alone produced the effects of the plant
• Gordon Wasson (tentatively have him here, he was an MKultra pawn, and kind of a shit person, but critical in bringing the psilocybn to the west)
• Marie Curie - discovered radioactive elements
• Seaborg (more so a physicist, but due to my close ties with him, he gets on the list) - discovered transuranium elements