Henri Martin (chemist)

Henri Martin was a Swiss chemist .

Life

Martin worked for the Swiss company Cilag and synthesized glyphosate for the first time in 1950 . In 1959, Cilag was taken over by the US company Johnson & Johnson and glyphosate was sold to Aldrich (now Sigma-Aldrich ) along with other samples . The herbicidal effect of glyphosate was only discovered years later - in the early 1970s - by the US company Monsanto .

Henri Martin later worked in herbicide research at Ciba-Geigy for 15 years .

Individual evidence

↑ The History of Glyphosate
^ Robert L. Zimdahl: A History of Weed Science in the United States . Elsevier Insights, 2010, ISBN 978-0-12-381495-1 , pp. 105 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Martin, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Switzerland

[1] The History of Glyphosate

[2] Robert L. Zimdahl: A History of Weed Science in the United States . Elsevier Insights, 2010, ISBN 978-0-12-381495-1 , pp. 105 ( limited preview in Google Book search).