Stanley Rossiter Benedict

Stanley Rossiter Benedict
Born	March 17, 1884(1884-03-17) Cincinnati, USA
Died	December 21, 1936(1936-12-21) (aged 52) USA
Nationality	American
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	Cornell University
Alma mater	University of Cincinnati

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

Robert D. Simoni, Robert L. Hill, and Martha Vaughan (2002). "Benedict's Solution, a Reagent for Measuring Reducing Sugars: the Clinical Chemistry of Stanley R. Benedict". J. Biol. Chem. 277 (16): e5–e6. doi:10.1074/jbc.M110516200. PMID 11773074.

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Name	Benedict, Stanley Rossiter
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Date of birth	17 March 1884
Place of birth	Cincinnati, USA
Date of death	21 December 1936
Place of death	USA