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Aug 16, 1988 · In one version, cited by Carl Jung in ''The Psychology of Transference,'' Kekule discovered the benzene ring after dreaming of ''the Royal Marriage,'' the image of a dancing king and queen...
Here Kekulé spoke of the creation of the theory. He said that he had discovered the ring shape of the benzene molecule after having a reverie or day-dream of a snake seizing its own tail (this is an ancient symbol known as the ouroboros).
May 5, 2010 · The nineteenth-century German chemist August Kekulé claimed to have pictured the ring structure of benzene after dreaming of a snake eating its own tail.
- Andrew Robinson
- 2010
Nov 30, 2015 · Kekulé, Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft, 1890, pages 1305-1307, has left an intimate record, worth reproducing in extenso, of his own experience as a scientific discoverer: Genius has been spoken of, and the Benzene Theory has been designated a work of genius.
Nov 16, 2021 · The chemist Friedrich August Kekulé, later professor at the University of Bonn, brought light into the darkness. Legend has it that he sat dozing by the fireplace in the winter of 1861. Kekulé suddenly had a vision of a snake devouring its own tail.
At a celebration held in his honor in Berlin on March 11, 1890, August Kekulé told his “dream stories.” According to Arthur Koestler, Kekulé's benzene story was “probably the most important dream in history since Joseph's seven fat and seven lean cows.”
Jul 9, 2024 · August Kekule von Stradonitz was a German chemist who established the foundation for the structural theory in organic chemistry. Kekule was born into an upper-middle-class family of civil servants and as a schoolboy demonstrated an aptitude for art and languages, as well as science subjects.
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