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Hans Wynberg
(28 Nov 1922 - 25 May 2011)
Dutch chemist who was one of the founders of asymmetric organocatalysis.
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Science Quotes by Hans Wynberg (1 quote)
The recent ruling by the Supreme Court restricting obscenity in books, magazines and movies, requires that we re-examine our own journals for lewd contents. The recent chemical literature provides many examples of words and concepts whose double meaning and thinly veiled overtones are an affront to all clean chemists. What must a layman think of ‘coupling constants’, ‘tickling techniques’, or indeed ‘increased overlap’? The bounds of propriety are surely exceeded when heterocyclic chemists discuss homoenolization.
— Hans Wynberg
In Chemical Engineering News (8 Oct 1973), 68.
See also:
- 28 Nov - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Wynberg'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.
(1987) -- 
