PASTEUR (1848) was looking at some crystals of tartaric acid under the microscope, and observed that there were mirror-opposite types of crystals that when dissolved in solution rotated light in opposite directions. This was an act of pure curiosity. These observations led to a whole new field of chirality.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022