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PASTEUR'S two lectures on molecular asymmetry (Paris, 18601) are justly regarded as a supreme example of the characteristic lucidity of the French mind and language. Organic chemists point with pride to the fact that scarcely a word of this classic needs to be altered at the present day.
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"Leçons de Chimie professées en 1860" (Chemical Society of Paris, 1861, Alembic Club Reprint No. 14).
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ROBINSON, R. Discovery of Molecular Asymmetry. Nature 159, 161 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159161a0
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