John Stith Pemberton

        I admit that i have never been asked what pharmacist i admire, my biggest idol in the area is Dr. Simi, who doesn't like the way he dances? But unfortunately it's just a publicity image from a pharmacy, so  get serious.
 The first thing i did was look for famous pharmacists and in my quest found that the inventor of the Coca-Cola was our colleague, i was very surprised, probably several knew this, but i didn't know it and i found it very interesting so i decided to look more about it… John Pemberton.

John Stith Pemberton was an American pharmaceutical chemist, was born on July 8 of 1831, in Knoxville, Georgia, and died on August 16 of 1888, in Atlanta.
John was a military servant during the civil war in 1865 where he received a sabre cut in his chest, he used morphine to soothe the pain, but became addicted to this. Looking for a cure for his addiction, he's dedicated to inventing “medicine final and the alcoholic drink perfect” so get to the Coca-Cola that in its pioneering version was called Pemberton’s French Wine Coca and he wore wine and cocaine. Later, it's passed a dry law in Atlanta and had to make a new format non-alcoholic, of this is the original formula of Coca-Cola.
Pemberton he didn’t know get profits with his invention and died  at 57 years old, in the poverty, addicted to morphine, cocaine and with stomach cancer.

Conclusión, i don’t think so was a very dignified man to admire, but if a story worthy of counting.