John Pemberton John Pemberton John Stith Pemberton ( – ) was an American pharmacist whom is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola. In May 1886, he developed an early version of a beverage that would later become world-famous as Coca-Cola, but sold his rights to the drink shortly before his death. Pemberton was born on , in Knoxville, Georgia, and spent most of his childhood in Rome, Georgia. His parents were James C. Pemberton and Martha L. Gant. He entered the Reform Medical College of Georgia in Macon, Georgia, and in 1850, at the age of nineteen, he earned his medical
John Pemberton (physician) becoming emeritus. He was also a consultant in Social and Preventive Medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. in 1957 he was both founder member and first treasurer of the Society for Social Medicine and co-founder of the International Epidemiological Association. He died on 7 February 2010. John Pemberton (physician) Professor John Pemberton FRCP (1912-2010) was a British epidemiologist. Pemberton was born on 18 November 1912, in Romford, Essex, to Marie Lottie (née Talbot) and Augustus Charles Pemberton, the latter being a steward at Christ's Hospital, Horsham. He studied at Christ's Hospital and then at University College London, where he