Stanley Rossiter Benedict

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Stanley Rossiter Benedict
Born (1884-03-17)March 17, 1884
Cincinnati, United States
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United States
Nationality American
Fields Chemistry
Institutions Cornell University
Alma mater University of Cincinnati

Stanley Rossiter Benedict (17 March 1884 – 21 December 1936) was 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. He married Ruth Fulton. The marriage collapsed and his wife began a career in anthropology as Ruth Benedict.

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