Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge: Google Doodle honours German ‘coffee’ chemist on 225th birth anniversary

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Coffee lovers at Google Doodle HQ chose adorable GIF to fete Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge's 225th birth anniversary. He was born outside of Hamburg in 1795 to a Lutheran pastor. He analysed chemical composition of coffee which led to discovery of caffeine. He was one of the first scientists to isolate quinine, a drug used to treat malaria. He even devised a method for extracting sugar from beet juice..

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