Nicolas Flamel

[Radagast The Brown]

Nicholas, or Nicolas, Flamel was a French alchemist who lived in the fifteenth century. His life is no myth: his house in Paris, built in 1407, still stands, at 51 rue de Montmorency, where it has been made into a restaurant. His deeds, though, are the stuff of legend.

Flamel is supposed to have been the most accomplished of the European alchemists. It is claimed that he succeeded at the two magical goals of alchemy supposed to have been the chief aims of that pseudoscience: he made the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into gold, and he and his wife Perenelle achieved immortality.

I don't suppose it's a coincidence? See, I just looked in a history book and was amazed to find that in 1383 Nicolas Flamel published a book about how to make other metals to gold.

Just thought it was interesting.