Ramberg, Peter

Ramberg, Peter J. Chemical Structure, Spatial Arrangement The Early History of Stereochemistry, 1874—1914. Aldershot (UK) Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2003. This book provides an accessible discussion of the first 40 years of stereochemical research. 

Ramberg, Peter. Chemical Structure, Spatial Arrangement The Early History of Stereochemistry, 1874-1914. Aldershot Ashgate, 2003. 

Ramberg, Peter (2000) The Death of Vitalism and the Birth of Organic Chemistry Wolher s Urea Synthesis and the Disciplinary Identity of Chemistry Ambix, 47 170-195. 

Ramberg, Peter (2001) Paper Tools and Fictional Worlds Prediction, Synthesis, and Auxiliary Hypotheses in Chemistry in U. Klein (ed.) Tools and Modes of Representation in the Laboratory Sciences, Dordrecht, Kluwer, pp. 61—78. 

Van t Hoff s 1874 pamphlet, reprinted in Peter J. Ramberg and Geert J. Somsen, The Young J. H. van t Hoff The Background to the Publication of His 1874 Pamphlet on the Tetrahedral Carbon Atom, Together with a New English Translation, Annals of Science 58 (2001) 51—74. 

While only a total synthesis of an organic compound starting from the elements could serve as a knock-down argument against vitalism, this myth was, as John Brooke and Peter Ramberg have both pointed out, more to... 

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