History Discovery In 1849, Adolph Strecker was the first to isolate choline from pig bile. In 1852, L. Babo and M. Hirschbrunn extracted choline from white mustard seeds and named it sinkaline. In 1862, Strecker repeated his experiment with pig and ox bile, calling the substance choline for the first time after the Greek word for bile, chole, and identifying it with the chemical formula C5H13NO. In 1850, Theodore Nicolas Gobley extracted from the brains and roe of carps a substance he named lecithin after the Greek word for egg yolk, , showing in 1874 that it was a mixture of phosphatidylcholines.
History Discovery In 1849, Adolph Strecker was the first to isolate choline from pig bile. In 1852, L. ,Babo and M. Hirschbrunn extracted choline from white mustard seeds and named it sinkaline. In 1862 Strecker repeated his experiment with pig and ox bile, calling the substance choline for the first time after the Greek word for bi,le, chole and identifying it with the chemical formula C5H13NO. In 1850, Theodore Nicolas Gobley extracted from the brains and roe of carps a substance he named lecithin after the Greek word for egg yolk, , showing in 1874 that it was a mixture of phosphatidylcholines.