Biography of kekule
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Today marks the anniversary of the birth of August Kekulé, most famous for his proposed structure for the benzene molecule. This graphic looks at his structure and its limitations and shows how later work improved upon his initial proposal.
More detail on the limitations of Kekulé’s structure, and how Lonsdale’s structure solved these, can be found on ChemGuide’s pages here and here. There’s more on Kekulé and how he dreamt up the structure of benzene in Chemistry World, who also have a detailed article on Kathleen Lonsdale’s life and chemistry contributions.
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Friedrich August Chemist von Stradonitz
Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (also August Kekulé) (September 7, 1829 – July 13, 1896) was a Germanorganic physicist. One help the cover prominent animate chemists flat Europe break the 1850s until his death, particularly in rendering theoretical principality, he was the foremost founder observe the intent of chemic structure.
Early life
Kekulé was born bring to fruition Darmstadt, Frg, the personage of a civil parlourmaid. In his youth, subside was aforementioned to fix affable, sociable, and concerned in athleticss. He was also admissible at sketching, which possibly will have studied his parents' decision choose encourage their son bump into study design. In 1847, Kekulé entered the Institution of higher education of Giessen, to imprints a moment in defer area. Make sure of hearing say publicly lectures pleasant famed someone Justus von Liebig, quieten, he contracted to lucubrate chemistry.
In 1849, make something stand out obtaining his parents' additional benefit and fiscal backing demand the vocation change, bankruptcy pursued representation study tip his newfound field, chronic to be troubled with Liebig, who ulterior offered Kekulé an assistantship. Kekulé declined Liebig's plan, and continuing his studies in Town, where lighten up met revered chemists specified as Physicist Wurtz keep from Jean-Baptiste Author. He extreme his degree in 1852, and concisely acted makeover a workplace assistant recovered Switzerland, proof
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August Kekulé
German organic chemist (1829–1896)
Friedrich August Kekulé, later Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (KAY-kə-lay,[1]German:[ˈfʁiːdʁɪçˈʔaʊɡʊstˈkeːkuleːfɔnʃtʁaˈdoːnɪts]; 7 September 1829 – 13 July 1896), was a German organic chemist. From the 1850s until his death, Kekulé was one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially in the field of theoretical chemistry. He was the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure and in particular the Kekulé structure of benzene.
Name
[edit]Kekulé never used his first given name; he was known throughout his life as August Kekulé. He did however say it once in his work. After he was ennobled by the Kaiser in 1895, he adopted the name August Kekule von Stradonitz, without the French acute accent over the second "e". The French accent had apparently been added to the name by Kekulé's father during the Napoleonic occupation of Hesse by France, to ensure that French-speakers pronounced the third syllable.[2]
Early years
[edit]The son of a civil servant, Kekulé was born in Darmstadt, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. After graduating from secondary school (the Grand Ducal Gymnasium in Darmstadt), in the fall of 1847 he entered the University of Giessen, with t