Background
Puckner, William August was born on February 24, 1864 in New Holstein, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Rudolph and Marie (Heins) Puckner.
Puckner, William August was born on February 24, 1864 in New Holstein, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Rudolph and Marie (Heins) Puckner.
Graduate in Pharmacy, Chicago College Pharmacy (now University of Illinois School of Pharmacy), 1885. Attended summer course in chemistry, Harvard, and took lectures and laboratory work in chemistry at University of Heidelberg. (honorary Phar.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1912.
Honorary Phar.M., Phila College Pharmacy, 1919).
Unmarried. In retail drug business, at Chicago, 1880-1890. Professor of chemistry, University of Illinois School of Pharmacy, 1890-1910.
Chemist for Searle & Hereth Company, manufacturing pharmacists, Chicago, 1896-1907. Secretary council on pharmacy and chemistry, American Medical Association, since 1906.
Member Committee on Revision of the United States Pharmacopœia IX and X.
Member commission on synthetic drugs, National.
Research Council.
Member Committee on Revision of the United States Pharmacopœia IX and X. Member committee