- 8 June 1990 Paradiso, Switzerland

Paradiso, Switzerland

Paradiso is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.-History:Paradiso is first mentioned in 1335 as Calprino. In 1835 it was first called Paradiso, though that didn't become the official name until 1929....

), was the son of Dr. Bernhard Joos and Olga Sturzenegger.

He attained a PhD in chemistry at the University of Zurich

University of Zurich

The University of Zurich , located in the city of Zurich, is the largest university in Switzerland, with over 25,000 students. It was founded in 1833 from the existing colleges of theology, law, medicine and a new faculty of philosophy....

 in 1925, and was an assistant of Paul Karrer

Paul Karrer

Paul Karrer was a Swiss organic chemist best known for his research on vitamins. He and Walter Haworth won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937.-Early years:...

, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1937. After a stay in the U.S.

United States

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, he returned to Switzerland

Switzerland

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 in 1932 and started his own laboratory where he discovered Pyridazil

Phenazopyridine

Phenazopyridine is a chemical which, when excreted into the urine, has a local analgesic effect. It is often used to alleviate the pain, irritation, discomfort, or urgency caused by urinary tract infections, surgery, or injury to the urinary tract...

, his first medicine.

In 1936 he created the pharmaceutical company Cilag

Cilag

Cilag AG is a Swiss pharmaceutical company. Cilag is a subsidiary of American pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson. The company's global marketing activities are operated by Janssen-Cilag, a merger with another Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, Janssen Pharmaceutica.-Company history:In 1933, Swiss...

 (Chemical Industrial Laboratory AG). Within its first few years the new company launched six new pharmaceutical preparations. He left the company in 1949, and in 1959 Cilag was acquired by the US company Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson

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An Australian legal claim filed by him, Bernhard Joos vs. Commissioner of Patents, resulted in a change in British patent law, making medical and cosmetic procedures on the human body patentable.