I have not picked up copy of the paper Kekule: OCR-optical chemical structure recognition cited by Tony, so cannot say much about that right now. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
Of course the substantial disanalogy between it and the ID crowd is that Kekule was not just satisfied with having dreamt a solution; he proceded to test it. From Wordnik.com. [Wells vs tiny flies - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Of course the substantial disanalogy between it and the ID crowd is that Kekule was not just satisfied with having dreamt a solution; he proceded to test it. frank schmidt. From Wordnik.com. [Wells vs tiny flies - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Kekule got the hypothesis of the ring structure at the heart of organic molecules in a dream-like reverie, but he realized that it was only a bright idea until it was checked against independent data. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Unknown Freud': Yet Another Exchange] Reference
Two famous reports of modern times of this kind of correlation -- between the hard factual world of science and the dreamworld of the psychedelic state -- are those of Friedrich Kekule, the German chemist who has written that he was. From Wordnik.com. [LSD and the Third Eye] Reference
Now a German chemist named Kekule, comes along and develops a theory called the valence of atoms. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Market Place] Reference
Arndt (1769-1860) in history, A.W. Schlegel (1767-1845) in literature, Nasse (1778-1851) in medicine, Kekule (1829-96) and Mohr. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
Amylsulphate of barytes, crystallized with two equivalents of water, contains, according to the analysis of Cahours and Kekule, 45.95 per cent. of sulphate of barytes. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants] Reference
The German chemist Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz, or August Kekulé (1829-1896), who taught at the Universities of Heidelberg, Ghent and Bonn, in 1858 established the fact that carbon has a valence (combining power) of four. From Wordnik.com. [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference
More than a century ago, the famous German chemist August Kekule had a dream about a serpent with its tail in its mouth, and this inspired him to propose the correct, circular structure of the compound benzene, a commonly used industrial solvent. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
Alan J. Rocke Image and Reality: Kekule, Kopp, and the Scientific. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome] Reference
Unsympathetic reader, for what it is worth the Kekule story is repeated in Brock’s Norton History of Chemistry. From Wordnik.com. [Wells vs tiny flies - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The tremendous commercial uses which have been made of benzene had their origin "in a single idea, advanced in a masterly treatise by Auguste Kekule in the year. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Kekule recounted that the structure of benzene came to him in a dream, in which rows of atoms wound like serpents before him; one of the serpents seized its own tail: "the form whirled mockingly before my eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
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