Amazing Scientific Discoveries: Aspirin, Cattle, Business Communication and Others

Gulyás, András and Heszberger, Zalán and Bíró, József (2020) Amazing Scientific Discoveries: Aspirin, Cattle, Business Communication and Others. In: Paths. Birkhauser, Springer-Nature, Cham, pp. 67-71. ISBN 978-3-030-47544-4 ; 978-3-030-47545-1

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Abstract

Besides the philosophical arguments, one could think of a series of possibilities where all these observations about paths could be used. Have you ever wondered, for example, what happens in your body after you swallow an Aspirin? As incredible as it sounds, this question was answered only 74 years after the development of the medicine. It was 1897 when the young German chemist Dr. Felix Hoffmann managed to stabilize the agent of Aspirin. After patenting in Germany in 1899 and in the US in 1900, Aspirin started its great triumph and became the most popular painkiller worldwide. Even Neil Armstrong took an Aspirin pill in his medical-kit when going to the Moon on the Apollo 11. In the early 1970s, more and more researchers asked the question: How and where does Aspirin work in the body? Pharmacologist Sir John Vane was the first to demonstrate the classical effect profile of Aspirin, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1982.

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