J. W. R's scientific contributions
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... The state of the art is well described by chemistry text books of the 1890s: Ostwald's Outlines of General Chemistry, 1890 [303] "whatever we may think of the assumption of the tetrahedral arrangement of the valencies-an assumption which has of late proved very useful in another field-the fact is at least very remarkable, that hitherto no optically active substance has been discovered which does not, in the above sense, possess an asymmetric carbon atom"; Mendeleef's Principles of Chemistry, 1891 the effect of different isomerides on the direction of the rotation of the plane of polarization of light-this tendency promises much for chemical mechanics, but the details of the still imperfect knowledge in relation to this matter must be sought for special works devoted to organic chemistry"; Attfield's Chemistry, 1894 "according to Van 't Hoff and Le Bel, all compounds that cause such rotation contain at least one atom of carbon with which is united four different atoms or radicals. Such carbon atoms are conveniently termed asymmetrical" [304]; Hinrich's Introduction to General Chemistry, 1897 "a carbon atom so combined is called asymmetric by van't Hoff (Holland, 1874) and Le Bel (France, 1874), who independently generalized this condition: No rotary polarization without at least one asymmetric carbon" [305]. ...
