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 ...

AT an extra meeting of the Chemical Society, held on Wednesday, December 15, Prof. F. R. Japp, F..R.S., delivered a memorial lecture in honour of the eminent German chemist, Friedrich August Kekulé, ...

Professor Carl Santesson was intrigued. In 1897, four women working in a Swedish tire-manufacturing plant exhibited similar, serious blood-clotting problems. Today, the condition would be recognized ...

CHASING THE MOLECULE, by John Buckingham, Sutton Publishing, 2004, 259 pages, $24.95 (ISBN 0-7509-3345-3) In the preface to their 1923 classic, "Thermodynamics," Gilbert Newton Lewis and Merle Randall ...

Kekule was not a cat, he was a chemist. But he did have a snake dream breakthrough. Source: Photo from Pixabay on Pexels. The most memorable achievement of 19th-century chemist August Kekule was ...

Source: Auguste Kekulé in Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain In previous posts, I have described Henri Laborit's discovery of chlorpromazine (Thorazine) for psychoses, and how Heinz Lehmann and others ...

In 1862, a chemist nodded off in front of a fire and began to dream. August Kekulé had been pondering the most pressing question in his field at the time: what was the chemical structure of a curious ...

The history of ‘everyone’s favorite hexagon’ illustrates the resonance of basic science and how discoveries build over time ...

Jeff, a pharmacy student in Richmond writes, One thing about Richmond is that most everyone in the city has a tattoo. After living here for 3 years I finally gave into peer pressure and got a tattoo.

Jeff, a pharmacy student in Richmond writes, One thing about Richmond is that most everyone in the city has a tattoo. After living here for 3 years I finally gave into peer pressure and got a tattoo.