Joseph achille le bel biography definition

FRENCH CHEMIST
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Joseph-Achille Le Bel, born in Pechelbronn, France, was, with Dutch physical chemist Jacobus Hendricus van't Hoff, the cofounder of modern stereochemistry.

They independently established the relation between optical activity and asymmetric carbon compounds.

Le Bel was born into a wealthy family that controlled the petroleum industry in Pechelbronn, Alsace.

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In he was sent to the École Polytechnique in Paris to obtain a chemical education and spent most of his time there doing chemical research. After graduation, he worked with the French chemists Antoine Balard and Adolphe Wurtz in Paris, in between intermediate periods of refinery construction at home.

Finally in , he sold his shares in the family business and established a private laboratory in Paris where he devoted himself to organic chemistry and, in his later years, paleontology, botany, and philosophy. An independent thinker who never held an academic appointment, Le Bel d