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7 unusual facts about Hoechst AG


Frankfurt Sindlingen station

The progressive industrialisation of the area, in particular the growth of the factories of Hoechst AG, caused considerable population growth in Sindlingen and the surrounding villages.

Fritz Aldinger

In 1985 Aldinger he became the director of the Central Research at Hoechst AG.

Hoechst AG

1994 - The U.S. National Right to Life Committee announced a U.S. boycott of all Hoechst pharmaceutical products including Altace because of the abortion pill RU-486.

Jakob Becker

Exhibition at the corporate museum of Hoechst AG at Höchster Schloss, 17 March 1985 to 20 April 1985.

Jeffrey Lieberman

With this, he disclosed honoraria, consulting fees, research grant support from AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Upjohn Pharmacia, Novartis, Eli Lilly, Janssen, Pfizer, Hoechst AG, and AstraZeneca.

Peter Löscher

From 1988 until 2000 he worked for the German pharmaceutical company Hoechst in Spain,

Walton, Milton Keynes

The modern H9 Groveway grid road severs a few of its houses into Walton Hall and the V10 Brickhill Street separates the Manor Farm into Walton grid square, where it was previously a research centre for Hoechst and is now the UK headquarters of MSD Animal Health.


Max Bockmühl

Methadone was developed in 1937 in Germany by scientists Max Bockmühl and Gustav Ehrhart working for I.G. Farbenindustrie AG at the Farbwerke Hoechst (it is synthesised from 1,1-diphenylbutane-2-sulfonic acid and dimethylamino-2-chloropropane) who were looking for a synthetic opioid that could be created with readily available precursors, to solve Germany's opium shortage problem.

Roger Gaudry

He was a member of the Board of Directors of the following companies: Connaught Laboratories Ltd., CDC Life Sciences Inc., Bank of Montreal, Alcan, Hoechst Canada, S.K.W. Canada Ltd., Bio-Recherche Ltée,


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