PROGRESS IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. But undoubtedly the most rapid ... A few years after, Berzelius showed that racemic and tartaric acids have the same composition, but different properties, and ...

Only living tissue, he said, could make an organic compound. WOMAN: Berzelius comes along at the beginning of the 19th century, when the push to understand chemistry really gets under way.

His research has focused on innovative concepts in synthetic organic chemistry.Credit...Denise Applewhite/Princeton University, Via Reuters In 1835, the Swedish chemist Jacob Berzelius described a ...