ANTON KOLLISCH

'Anton Köllisch' (1888-1916) was the German chemist who, whilst working at Darmstadt for pharmaceutical giant Merck, first synthesized the chemical MDMA that would later come to be known as ecstasy.
A patent was filed for the drug on Christmas Eve 1912, and was granted on June 16 1914. Köllisch, however, died as a soldier in the World War I in September 1916 with no idea of the impact his synthesis would have.

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★ Benzenhöfer, U. and Passie, T. (2006). The early history of Ecstasy. Nervenarzt 77, 95-99. (German) PMID 16397805.

★ Adam, David. ''Truth about ecstacy's unlikely trip from lab to dance floor: Pharmaceutical company unravels drug's chequered past'', Guardian Unlimited, 2006-08-18.

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