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- OF all the cases cited by psychiatrists, psychologists and historians of science to illuminate the role of symbolism in creative thought, none is more famous than August Kekule's somnolent vision of a snake biting its tail, a dream that supposedly revealed the true structure of the benzene ring to the German chemist.
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Aug 16, 1988 · The dream was that of the self-devouring snake, which, Kekule said, led him to the benzene ring. In the same speech Kekule told of another earlier dream he had had, in 1854 or 1855,...
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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. In Image and Reality, Alan Rocke...
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Jan 22, 2022 · Friedrich Kekulé’s 19th-century dream about benzene’s ring structure led to major breakthroughs in chemistry. Modern scientists have extended this concept by creating ladder-shaped polymers from benzene rings, which show promise in electronics due to their unique energy-conducting properties.
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.
Kekulé's most famous work was on the structure of benzene. [3] In 1865 Kekulé published a paper in French (for he was then still in Belgium) suggesting that the structure contained a six-membered ring of carbon atoms with alternating single and double bonds. [8]
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.”
Jan 27, 2015 · Kekulé is one of the fathers of chemical structure theory, and best known for assigning a cyclic structure to benzene’s C 6 H 6 formula, which is famously said to have come to him in a day dream. At a time with few available methods for structure determination, this had been a considerable challenge.
