Stanley Rossiter Benedict

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Stanley Rossiter Benedict (18841936) 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.

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