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    Jakob Edmund Speyer (11 November 1878 – 5 May 1942) was a high-ranking German university lecturer and chemist of Jewish descent. He was persecuted during...
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    distinguish oxycodone from other opiates. Martin Freund and (Jakob) Edmund Speyer of the University of Frankfurt in Germany published the first synthesis...
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    opioid alkaloid in opium poppies, in 1914. Next, Martin Freund and Edmund Speyer developed oxycodone, also from thebaine, at the University of Frankfurt...
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    Sender (born 1926), author (The Cage, set partly in the ghetto) Jakob Edmund Speyer (1872–1942), medicinal chemist, co-inventor of oxycodone (Eukodal),...
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    Creation of oxymorphone 1916: Creation of oxycodone by Martin Freund and Edmund Speyer at the University of Frankfurt 1920–1924: First synthesis of hydrocodone...
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    Introduction” (2nd Ed) (1992) Wiley-VCH: Weinheim. ISBN 3-527-28165-7 Edmund Speyer; Hans Wolf (1924). "Über die Bildungsweise von Eisen-nonacarbonyl aus...
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    reaction of malonic acid derivatives with aromatic Hydrocarbons. With Edmund Speyer, he first synthesised the opioid oxycodone, which was subsequently marketed...
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    late 1999 after Tishman Speyer decided not to renew its lease. Tishman Speyer, led by David Rockefeller's close friend Jerry Speyer and the Lester Crown...
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    Raphael Walzer OSB. She then taught at a Catholic school of education in Speyer. As a result of the requirement of an "Aryan certificate" for civil servants...
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    protestation from German Lutheran princes in 1529 against an edict of the Diet of Speyer condemning the teachings of Martin Luther as heretical. In the 16th century...
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