Jaume Raventós i Gavaldà (1905-1982)

Catalan

Catalonia

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 scientist

Scientist

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 and pharmacologist, who as a refugee from Franco's Spain

Spain

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 worked in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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 and Manchester

Manchester

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. Intimately involved in the characterisation of Halothane

Halothane

Halothane is an inhalational general anesthetic. Its IUPAC name is 2-bromo-2-chloro-1,1,1-trifluoroethane. It is the only inhalational anesthetic agent containing a bromine atom; there are several other halogenated anesthesia agents which lack the bromine atom and do contain the fluorine and...

 (or Fluothane) in conjunction with Charles Suckling

Charles Suckling

Charles Walter Suckling, Commander of the Order of the British Empire is a British chemist who first synthesised halothane, a volatile inhalational anaesthetic in 1951, while working at the Imperial Chemical Industries Central Laboratory in Widnes.-Biography:He was born in Teddington, London,...

. Known as James Raventos in the UK. In the period 1928-1933 he worked in Barcelona

Barcelona

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with August Pi i Sunyer and Francesc Domènech i Alsina.