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Constantin Fahlberg
Constantin
Fahlberg
was a
Russian chemist
who
discovered
the
sweet taste
of
anhydroorthosulphaminebenzoic acid
in 1877–78 when analysing the
chemical compounds
in
coal tar
at
Johns Hopkins University
for
Professor
Ira Remsen
. Later Fahlberg gave this
chemical
"body" the
trade name
Saccharin
.