Frederick Belding Power

He also served as a chemist for the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories in London where he examined Chaulmoogra oil and its use in the treatment of leprosy.

He moved to Chicago, hoping to enrol at the Chicago College of Pharmacy but the Great Fire of 1871 struck and Power instead moved to Philadelphia where he worked with Edward Parrish before joining college and graduating in chemistry in 1874.

Power worked at the University of Strasbourg under Friedrich A. Flückiger in 1876 and obtained a PhD in 1880.

In 1896, following the death of his wife, Power moved to London, where he was hired by Henry Wellcome to serve as chief scientific chemist at the newly founded chemical research laboratories.

[1] He began to examine the constituents of plant-based medications including an analysis of Chaulmoogra oil, which was noted for its use in traditional Indian medicine as a treatment for leprosy.