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John Pemberton
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American pharmacist, inventor of Coca-Cola (1831-1888)
John Pemberton was an American pharmacist who invented Coca-Cola in 1831, creating one of the world's most iconic beverages. His invention matters because it became a hugely successful product that shaped popular culture and the beverage industry for generations to come.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 14
Top works
- Disease in an affluent society
- The health of the elderly at home
- Contributions to the theory of non-linear time series models
- Diary of John Pemberton
- An address to the County of York respecting the formation of a railway company and the making a railway from York to the Darlington Railway with a branch to Ripon and the rules of such company
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1977-11-03
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 60
- Total plays
- 87
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,591x
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· 2021 · cited 43,635x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,910x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,581x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,131x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Knoxville
- Place of death
- Atlanta
- Occupation
- businessperson
- Educated at
- Wesleyan College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Coca-Cola
- Military branch
- Confederate States Army
- Image
- John Pemberton.jpg
- Residence
- Rome
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- Commons category
- John Pemberton
- date of birth
- 1831-07-08
- date of death
- 1888-08-16
- cause of death
- stomach cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- John Pemberton
- partner in business or sport
- Asa Griggs Candler
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Encyclopedic overview
John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was an American pharmacist, chemist, and Confederate States Army officer who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola. On May 8, 1886, he developed an early version of a beverage that would later become Coca-Cola, but sold the rights to Asa Griggs Candler for roughly 2,300 ($79,946.31 in 2026) dollars shortly before his death in 1888.
Pemberton suffered from a sabre wound sustained in April 1865, during the Battle of Columbus. His efforts to control his chronic pain led to morphine addiction. In an attempt to curb his addiction he began to experiment with various painkillers and toxins. The development of an earlier beverage blending alcohol and cocaine led to the recipe that later was adapted to make Coca-Cola.
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