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- From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)
- Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
- Subject: Re: Inappropriate rejections in science (was: Truzzi Lecture)
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 11:13:09 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- In article <NS14.93Jan9190020@crux3.crux2.cit.cornell.edu> ns14@crux3.crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Nathan Otto Siemers) writes:
- > How about the tetrahedral nature of the carbon atom? The idea
- > and subsequent notions of stereochemistry were first posited by
- > Van Hoft and Lebel (sp?). Wohler, widely considered to be
- > the "father" of organic chemistry, denounced them as mystics
- > quite publicly.
-
- Let me beg some more details, especially related to the issue at
- hand. How (and how long) did Wohler's opposition retard the
- discovery of evidence related to stereochemistry? How effective
- was it at retarding the acceptance of these ideas?
-
- > Slightly more specialized is the decades long argument about
- > hypervalent carbon, fought to the death, literally, by
- > H.C. Brown and the late Saul Winstein. Winstein happened to
- > be correct, but it wasn't conclusively demonstrated until
- > after his death. ...
-
- Why was it not conclusively demonstrated until after Winstein's
- death? How did Brown's opposition delay this?
-
- Russell
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