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 ...
Creative people "dream things up" -- sometimes literally. Perhaps the most famous instance involves the legendary chemist Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz, who in 1865 allegedly discovered in a ...
Most organic chemical compounds contain loops of six carbon atoms called benzene rings. The nineteenth-century German chemist August Kekulé claimed to have pictured the ring structure of benzene after ...