Article ID: CBB000065642

Alfred Werner's awareness of spontaneous resolutions and the meaning of hemihedral faces in optically active crystals (1993)

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Bernal, Ivan (Author)
Kauffman, George B. (Author)


Struct. Chem.
Volume: 4 no.2
Issue: 2
Pages: 131-138

Description A historical examination of the work of Alfred Werner, Louis Pasteur, and others with quotations from the original articles, which concludes that Werner made a major mistake regarding spontaneous resolution and neglected the results of others in this area. (G.B. KAUFFMAN)


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Authors & Contributors
Kauffman, George B.
Stranges, Anthony N.
Kohler, Robert E., Jr.
Yasui, Takaji
Woody, Andrea I.
Slater, Leo B.
Journals
Journal of Chemical Education
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Scientiarum Historia
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Physics Teacher
Publishers
Texas A&M University Press
Springer-Verlag
Harvard University Press
University of Wisconsin
University of Pittsburgh
Concepts
Structural chemistry
Valency; bonds
Stereochemistry
Chemistry
Life sciences
Computational biology
People
Werner, Alfred
Parson, Alfred Locke
Lewis, Gilbert Newton
Langmuir, Irving
Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
Places
France
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