Stanley Rossiter Benedict
- Stanley Rossiter Benedict
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name = Stanley Rossiter Benedict
caption = Stanley Rossiter Benedict
birth_date = birth date|1884|3|17
birth_place = Cincinnati, USA
death_date = death date and age|1936|12|21|1884|3|17
death_place = USA
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nationality = American
field = Chemistry
work_institution = Cornell University
alma_mater = University of Cincinnati
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Stanley Rossiter Benedict (17 March 1884 – 21 December 1936) is an American chemist best known for discovering Benedict's reagent, a solution that detects certain sugars.
Benedict was born in Cincinnati, and went to the University of Cincinnati. After a year, he went to Yale's Department of Physiological Chemistry for training in metabolism and physiology.
References
*cite journal
author = Robert D. Simoni, Robert L. Hill, and Martha Vaughan
title = Benedict's Solution, a Reagent for Measuring Reducing Sugars: the Clinical Chemistry of Stanley R. Benedict
journal = J. Biol. Chem.
volume = 277
issue = 16
pages = e5-e6
year = 2002
url =
doi = 10.1074/jbc.M110516200
pmid = 11773074
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