Dr. John Pemberton

Dr. John Pemberton was an American pharmacist and inventor. He is best known for creating Coca-Cola, a carbonated soft drink that has become one of the most recognizable brands in the world. Pemberton was born in 1831 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and studied medicine at the University of Georgia. He later moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he worked as a pharmacist and developed a patent medicine called "Pemberton's French Wine Coca", which contained cocaine. Pemberton's invention of Coca-Cola was initially marketed as a cure for morphine addiction, and it quickly became popular across the United States.