Henry Drysdale Dakin
Henry Drysdale Dakin | |
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University of Heidelberg, Columbia University | |
| Doctoral advisor | Julius B. Cohen, Albrecht Kossel |
Henry Drysdale Dakin FRS[1] (12 March 1880 – 10 February 1952) was an English chemist.[2]
He was born in
University of Heidelberg. He joined Columbia University in 1905, working in the lab of Christian Herter. During his work on amino acids he obtained his PhD from Leeds.[3][4][5][6][7] In 1905, he was one of the first scientists to successfully synthesise adrenaline in the laboratory (see: History of catecholamine research
).
In 1914 he went back to England to offer his service with the war effort. Due to a request for a chemist by
Carrel–Dakin method of wound treatments. This consisted of intermittently irrigating the wound with Dakin's solution, a dilute solution of sodium hypochlorite (the active ingredient in common liquid bleach products) and boric acid. In the process, he analyzed more than 200 candidate substances, and developed quantitative methods to evaluate their effectiveness for disinfection and wound healing. The solution is still widely used for that purpose, as of 2013.[8] The World War I era Rockefeller War Demonstration Hospital (United States Army Auxiliary Hospital No. 1) was created, in part, to promote the Carrel–Dakin method:[9]
"The war demonstration hospital of the Rockefeller Institute was planned as a school in which to teach military surgeons the principles of and art of applying the Carrel-Dakin treatment."
After he married the widow of
Dakin reaction and the Dakin–West reaction
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He died shortly after the death of his wife in early 1952.
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