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Daydreams of science: the benzene Ouroboros and the Clapham omnibus
By
Robert Moss
One of the most famous, and most controversial, dreams in the history of science is the vision of Ouroboros – the snake consuming its own tail – that revealed the shape of the benzene ring to German chemist Friedrich August Kekulé (1829-1896). Was it a sleep dream, a daydream or something else? I went back…
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