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Today is the 128th anniversary of the discovery of saccharin, the world's oldest artificial sweetener, thanks to inadequate hand washing. On February 27, 1879, researchers at Johns Hopkins University accidentally discovered the non-nutritive sweetener while studying the oxidation of o-toluenesulfonamide, a coal tar derivative. After a long day in the laboratory, Ira Remsen and Constantin Fahlberg returned to their homes for dinner. Remsen, a chemistry professor and former physician, noticed that his dinner rolls tasted unusually sweet and then bitter. When his wife argued that there was nothing odd about their evening meal, Remsen tasted his hands and concluded that the strange flavor was a residual laboratory chemical. Constantine Fahlberg, a postdoctoral research fellow at Johns Hopkins, also noticed that his meal was unusually sweet, and reached the same conclusion after tasting his hands and arms. The next day, Remsen and Fahlberg returned to the laboratory and "taste tested" their unwashed equipment to confirm the source of the sweetness.
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Normally when new members post links in their first post on the site it's to sell something, but since your links go to an engineering based website with blogs, I don't see any problem with it. Welcome to the site Moose! 
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welcome  glad to have you here!
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Interesting read! I had no idea that's how saccharin came about!
Welcome to the site CR4Moose!
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Thanks, William Wallace! The scientists who discovered saccharin displayed a fair amount of bravey - though not a Braveheart scale, of course. Still, in our age of bacteria-killing handsoaps and generalized germophobia, not many chemists would lick their hands after leaving the lab. | |
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Originally Posted by CR4Moose  Thanks, William Wallace! The scientists who discovered saccharin displayed a fair amount of bravey - though not a Braveheart scale, of course. Still, in our age of bacteria-killing handsoaps and generalized germophobia, not many chemists would lick their hands after leaving the lab. | Did they acutally lick their hands? I remember the article said their food tasted different after going to the lab that day? If they did lick, then yes that is serious bravery! Or stupidity 
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