The pharmaceutical chemist Juan José Olivero, reference of uruguayan science and the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical chemist (doctor) Juan José Olivero Muñoz (Buenos Aires, 1921-Montevideo, 1993) was one of the outstanding professionals in the uruguayan pharmaceutical teaching and industry. He worked as a technician in the laboratories Athena; EMAR (Eduardo Márques Castro S. A.) and Dispert. A specialist in antibiotics, he also developed different products. He studied chloromycetin, publishing in Annals of the Uruguayan Chemistry anf Pharmacy Association and Chemical Abstracts. He was author of papers on hydrotropization in pharmaceutical technology; chemical titration of diphenhydramine hydrochloride elixir and solvotropization of steroid hormones. He wrote several chapters of the encyclopedia Theoretical and practical Pharmacotechnics, a reference text. He was president of the Uruguayan Chemistry and Pharmacy Association and was a professor and advisor of the Faculty of Chemistry in several subjects, mainly Pharmacotechnics. From 1966 until his death, he was a member of the Royal National Academy of Pharmacy (Spain), an honor to which few chemists had access in our country. After his death, he was recognized as one of the leading figures of the profession in Uruguay.