For a dream
2019/10/22 Galarraga Aiestaran, Ana - Elhuyar Zientzia
For some who do not clean the morning poplars (steep macarra? The world of science is strict and rigid. No space for the imagination. The history of science is full of poetry and dreams.
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Let's see F. A. A. A famous anecdote of the chemical Kekule. Kekule has been trying for seven years to unravel the mystery of benzene. It was not an easy issue, and many researchers wanted to release that knot: How could six hydrogen atoms be hidden with six carbon atoms, while explaining their extraordinary characteristics? You can't imagine. The benzene gave the exception in a nice approved system… but science could not open the exceptions.
In 1865, in Ghent, Kekule took a public bus. As is customary, the benzene was in the head. The man was tired and the triki-trac of the vehicle broke him very well. In the light sleep and in the semi-dreams, what to see, and some atoms happily dance, winding up in several betrayals, as forming some snakes. One day, one of these snakes grabbed his tail.
Kekule woke up as he was pierced by lightning. I had a new, brilliant, wonderful idea! The structure of the benzene was not linear, but cyclical! The six carbon atoms constituted a hexagon with a hydrogen associated to each vertex. Tangled up!
The great chemist Adolf von Baeyer said that in exchange for that wonderful delirium of Kekule he would change all the achievements of his life. It was not an easy dream!
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