What year was creatin discovered and who discovered it?

Dear seanpo,

Creatine was discovered in 1832, by the French scientist Michel Eugène
Chevreul (1786-1889). He named it after the Greek word for flesh,
"kreas".

Follow this link to see a portrait of Michel Chevreul:
http://ursula.chem.yale.edu/~chem125/125/history99/5Valence/Nomenclature/chevreul.gif


Sources:

Yale University Department of Chemistry: Development of Systematic
Names for the Simple Alkanes
http://ursula.chem.yale.edu/~chem125/125/history99/5Valence/Nomenclature/alkanenames.html

University of Pennsylvania: What is Creatine and what does it do?
http://www.asc.upenn.edu/courses/comm240/fall2001/_rossg/faq.html


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Hope this answers your question!
Regards,
Scriptor

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