Stewart Adams (chemist)

Stewart Sanders Adams OBE (16 April 1923 – 30 January 2019) was an English pharmacist, and bioengineer who was part of a team from Boots which developed the painkiller ibuprofen in 1961. Ibuprofen is now on the World Health Organization's Model List of Essential Medicines and is one of the world's best-selling drugs.

Stewart Adams

Born
Stewart Sanders Adams

(1923-04-16)16 April 1923
Died30 January 2019(2019-01-30) (aged 95)
Nottingham, England
NationalityEnglish
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materUniversity of Nottingham
Known forDevelopment of Ibuprofen
Spouse
Mary
(m. 1950)
Scientific career
InstitutionsBoots Pure Drug Company
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