Charles Joseph Tanret, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Joinville, Grand Est, France
About Charles Joseph Tanret
- Charles Joseph Tanret (9 August 1847 in Joinville, France – 10 July 1917 in Paris) was a French pharmacist and chemist. He notably studied the chemistry of sugars, reporting his observations of the mutarotation of glucose in 1895.
- He also identified quebrachitol in 1887 from the bark of Aspidosperma quebracho.His son Georges was also a pharmacist, specialist of plant chemistry.
- Georges Tanret identified an alkaloid (galegine) from Galega officinalis that was evaluated in clinical trials in patients with diabetes in the 1920s and 1930s.
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