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Auguste Laurent

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Auguste Laurent was a French chemist recognized for his contributions to organic chemistry, particularly for his work on the structure of isomers and the formulation of the law of isomerism. His research laid the foundation for the development of stereochemistry.

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“From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that to make acetanilide, for example, they no longer employed acetic acid and aniline, but they re-copulated a copulated oxalic acid with a copulated ammonia. I am inventing nothing-altering nothing. Is it my fault if, when writing history, I appear to be composing a romance?”

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“I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!”

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Born: November 14, 1807
Died: April 23, 1853
Known for: Chemist
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