Heinrich Dreser was a German chemist, responsible for the aspirin and heroin projects at Bayer AG. He was also known for regularly taking heroin, which finally led to a cardiac arrest. Arthur Eichengrün claimed that the credit (and profits) for the discovery of aspirin were stolen from him by Dreser Wikipedia
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