Who discovered phenol?

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Need all the info I can get on phenol, especially who discovered it.

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Phenol was discovered in the 1650s by German chemist, Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604-1668), who obtained it by condensing coal tar vapors. Little was known of phenol's properties for nearly two hundred years until another German chemist, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795-1867), isolated phenol in 1834 and named it carbolic acid. In 1843, phenol's modern name was introduced by French chemist, Charles Frederic Gerhardt (1816-1856), who used a different method to prepare the acid. Large-scale manufacture of phenol began during the 1860s. At first, phenol was produced from coal tar, but processes were later developed for manufacturing phenol from petroleum. The compound was first synthesized from benzene in 1867 by French organic chemist, Charles Adolph Wurtz (1817-1884), and August Friedrich Kekule von Stradonitz.

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