Wotiz, John

Wotiz, John H., and Susanna Rudofsky. "The Unknown Kekule." In Essays on the History of Organic Chemistry. 

Wotiz, John H. (1993). The Kekule Riddle A Challenge for Chemists and Psychologists. Clearwater, FL Cache River Press. 

Wotiz, John, and Susanna Rudofsky. "Kekul s Dreams Fact or Fiction " Chemistry in Britain 20 (1984) 720-23. 

Clamp, John R., Bhatti, T, and Chambers, R. E., The Determination of Carbohydrate in Biological Materials by Gas-Liquid Chromatography Clark, Stanley J., see Wotiz, Herbert H. 

Some historians, particularly John Wotiz, have recently argued that Kekul6 was "no genius," hut rather a "gifted opportunist," a "fraud," and a "cheat" who fabricated these anecdotes to create an irrefutable cover story—irrefutable because they were private mental events—in order to steal credit for cyclical benzene from those who he knew were really the first to write cyclical formulas, namely, Couper and Lo-schmidt. Having failed to publish before his rivals (Wotiz suggested), Kekule falsely claimed that he had had these ideas first, in dreams, before them. He was thus guilty of "misconduct." ... 

Rudofsky, Susanna, and John Wotiz. "Psychologists and the Dream Accounts of August Kekule." Ambix 35 (1988) 31-38. 

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