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).
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SURNAME | Martin, Henri |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss chemist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Switzerland |