Felix Hoffmann (January 21, 1868 – February 8, 1946) was a German
chemist notable for re-synthesizing
diamorphine (independently from
C.R. Alder Wright who synthesized it 23 years earlier), which was popularized under the
Bayer trade name of "
heroin". He is also credited with synthesizing aspirin, though whether he did this under his own initiative or under the instruction of
Arthur Eichengrün is highly contested.