Talk:Felix Hoffmann

message: Only Aspirin is mentioned, before the article goes onto mentioning "both" Aspirin and Heroin. An earlier reference to heroin needs to be reinstated. Also, the dispute to whether Hoffmann only discovered Aspirin under the direction of Arthur Eichengrün needs to mentioned.Jason404 (talk) 06:51, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Problems with this page

message: The article says that "as of 2004" the controversy is still open. Given that it is now 2009, I was wondering A)If the controversy is still open and B)If the sentence in question can be amended.SpudHawg948 (talk) 22:49, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Status of controversy

message: The article leads with POV content, then says "as of 2004 the controversy is still open".  That's not the way to write things for Wikipedia. --70.48.231.5 (talk) 09:05, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: POV lead

message: When the controversy is mentioned, it should be pointed out that Arhur Eichengrün's was fully credited by Bayer for over 50 patents and was in fact Hoffmann's superior at the company. These facts weaken his argument that his "discovery" of Aspirin was not credited because of anti-semitism just in the particular case of Aspirin. --Count Westwest (talk) 01:17, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I worked for six years as a synthetic organic chemist in the United States. From my experience this is typical of the way all such firms have worked world-wide forever. I did my work under conditions identical to those described here. I had a supervisor who told me, with more or less detail, what to make. Sometimes he gave me written out reaction instructions. Sometimes he simply gave me a target molecule and let me design the reaction scheme. The patent rule in place at that time required that the person directing me write, in ink, into a sewn together notebook, their conception of the synthesis. Then I had to write, in my sewn together notebook, what I did when I first made the compound. If there was no conception documented before I did the work, then under United States law I was the inventor. No amount of discussion would change that. This is splitting hairs. Those who have done synthetic organic chemistry know that telling someone what to do, is not doing it. No matter how detailed the instructions, the work at the bench is "inventive". I did literally hundreds of chemical reactions following the detailed instruction in the literature, and not one of them produced the yield nor sometimes even the product claimed. In every case without exception I had to use my experience and synthetic skill to modify what they did to get their claimed yields. Nick Beeson (talk) 13:30, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Status controversy

message: I am a chemist and I do not know what this passage means, is it referring to a free acid vs. a salt? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 16:17, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved here

message: What religion was Hoffmann?, if any at all?  If no religion, what religion were his immediate ancestors. Thanks in advance to anybody who knows.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.105.33.20 (talk) 01:02, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Religion