Dear readers,

This time I would like to discuss with you a strange topic about some world famous persons who were well known in other fields but still worked as pharmacists or had a pharmacy background. Seems quiet interesting? These talents couldn’t stick to the pharmacy field and arose to broader world with long vision. ‘Broader world’ here I meant really indicates a wide space which you will get by knowing the names of these renowned persons who were ‘pharmacists’in their past. Below I list several famous people who spent time behind the pharmacist's counter, a sampling that includes apprentices to apothecaries, clerks for chemists, and owners and operators of the family drugstore.

Benjamin Franklin; (inventor of electricity) Believe it or not, this Founding Father was a pharmacist before he was ever a printer or a statesman. Working as a clerk in a neighborhood mercantile store, he dispensed medicines, herbs and various curatives.