Chemist and inventor, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Tufts and Harvard, and in the late 1930s developed a synthesis of riboflavin that made the large-scale production of vitamin B2 economical. The practical synthesis of other vitamins resulted from this breakthrough. After a long career as a research chemist, he became a professor of chemistry at Wesleyan University, Connecticut (1969).
Max Tishler (October 30, 1906 – March 18, 1989) was a scientist at Merck & who led the research teams that synthesized ascorbic acid, riboflavin, cortisone, miamin, pyridoxin, pantothenic acid, nicotinamide, methionine, threonine, and tryptophan.
He was born in Boston in 1906, and was the fifth of six children of European immigrants. As Max grew up he worked to help support his family by working as a bakery delivery boy, and a newsboy. He taught for three years at Harvard, then in 1937, he took a position at the Merck. THis first research assignment at Merck was to develop an economical process for producing large quantities of riboflavin.
In 1970 he retired from Merck, and joined the chemistry department at Wesleyan University.
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