Louis Lewin

Louis Lewin was a German pharmacologist. In 1887 he received his first sample of the Peyote cactus from Dallas, Texas-based physician John Raleigh Briggs (1851-1907), and later published the first methodical analysis of it, causing a variant to be named Anhalonium lewinii in his honor.

9 November 1850

Born on the same birth day (9 November): Baptiste Giabiconi • Bill Guerin • Bob Gibson • Elizabeth Hawley • Eric Dane • Gustav, Prince of Vasa • John V, Count of Nassau-Siegen • Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau • Phil May (singer) • Prithvi Shaw • Vanessa Lachey

Born in the same month (November 1850): Charlotte Garrigue • Ella Wheeler Wilcox • Joseph Samuel Bloch • Mikhail Chigorin • Robert Louis Stevenson