biography
| name: |
Le Bel, Joseph Achille
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pronunciation:
[luh bel]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1847–1930)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Pechelbronn, NE France. He studied at the Ecole Polytechnique, and the Sorbonne, became an industrial consultant, and continued research on his private estate. In 1874 he published his account of the asymmetric carbon atom, two months after Jacobus van't Hoff's identical but independent work was published, giving Hoff the priority in this fundamental stereochemical concept. |
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