Nicolas-Théodore Gobley
Nicolas-Théodore Gobley (born May 11, 1811 in Paris , † September 1, 1876 in Bagnères-de-Luchon ) was a French chemist and pharmacologist .
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He studied pharmacy in Paris and initially worked with the famous chemist and pharmacologist Pierre Jean Robiquet , who discovered the chemical structures of opium alkaloid, caffeine and codeine , among other things .
After he had worked as a medical assistant at a hospital, Gobley settled as a self-employed pharmacist in Paris from 1837 to 1861 and began his research, and after a short time he was able to acquire a good reputation as a chemist. For example, he isolated vanillin , the main aromatic substance in vanilla.
At the same time he taught from 1842 to 1847 as a professor at the École de pharmacie and was appointed to the medical academy in 1861.
His greatest scientific achievement was the discovery of lecithin in 1846/1847 . He succeeded in extracting a soft, sticky, orange-colored substance from egg yolk containing oleic acid, margaric acid, glycerol phosphoric acid and a nitrogenous organic base. In 1850 he named this substance lecithin after the Greek word Lekithos (egg yolk). In the years 1847 to 1858 he obtained analogous substances from the brain, carp eggs, blood, bile and other organic substances. Scientifically speaking, lecithin is phosphatidylcholine .
In 1846 the chemists Eugène Chevreul , Jean Baptiste Dumas and Théophile-Jules Pelouze of the Académie des Sciences reported on Gobley's research results and praised his findings.
Today the trivial name lecithin has become a general term.
From 1861 he was a member of the Academie de Médicine and he was a member (from 1843) and president of the Académie de pharmacie and corresponding member of the pharmaceutical societies in Madrid and Barcelona. In 1850 he became a Knight of the Legion of Honor and in 1870 an officer of the Legion of Honor. He was active in various Parisian public health organizations.
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- NICOLAS-THEODORE GOBLEY
- Hermann Pardun : Die Pflanzenlecithine Verlag for chem. Industrie H. Ziolkowsky KG, Augsburg 1988.
- Schäfer / Wywiol: Lecithin - the incomparable active ingredient Alfred Strohte Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1986, ISBN 3-87795-031-0 .
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| SURNAME | Gobley, Nicolas-Théodore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gobley, Maurice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French chemist and pharmacist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 1876 |
| Place of death | Bagneres-de-Luchon |