Louis Lewin
1850-1929 German botanist and pharmacologist · Germany · On the map · Scientists · Died at 79
Louis Lewin was a German pharmacologist. In 1887 he received his first sample of the Peyote cactus from Dallas, Texas-based physician John Raleigh Briggs (1851-1907), and later published the first methodical analysis of it, causing a variant to be named Anhalonium lewinii in his honor.
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Country
Germany
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1850 to 1929 · aged 79
