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Bernard Jacques Flürscheim
(27 Nov 1874 - 15 Jan 1955)
German-British organic chemist who emigrated to England in 1905 and made a fortune from the invention of the powerful explosive tetranitroaniline (TNA) in 1910. He created a theory of affintity to determine the reactive centres in a molecule such as phenol (championed by the young organic chemist Christopher K. Ingold in the early 1920s).
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Quotes by others about Bernard Jacques Flürscheim (1)
[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments.
Obituary for Flürscheim, Journal of the Chemical Society, 1956, 1087.
See also:
- 27 Nov - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Flürscheim's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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