AT an extra meeting of the Chemical Society, held on Wednesday, December 15, Prof. F. R. Japp, F..R.S., delivered a memorial lecture in honour of the eminent German chemist, Friedrich August Kekulé, ...

In the 19th century, the scientific community puzzled over how the atoms in the mysterious compound benzene were arranged. This "aromatic" molecule soon proved to have a surprisingly simple structure: ...

IN connexion with the benzene centenary, it may perhaps be pointed out that the name Kekulé is not French. August Kekulé, born in Darmstadt (1829; he died in Bonn, 1896), was a descendant of Wilhelm ...

CHASING THE MOLECULE, by John Buckingham, Sutton Publishing, 2004, 259 pages, $24.95 (ISBN 0-7509-3345-3) In the preface to their 1923 classic, "Thermodynamics," Gilbert Newton Lewis and Merle Randall ...

Professor Carl Santesson was intrigued. In 1897, four women working in a Swedish tire-manufacturing plant exhibited similar, serious blood-clotting problems. Today, the condition would be recognized ...

Source: Auguste Kekulé in Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain In previous posts, I have described Henri Laborit's discovery of chlorpromazine (Thorazine) for psychoses, and how Heinz Lehmann and others ...