Published in Henry Rzepa's Blog

On October 13, 2021, the historical group of the Royal Society of Chemistry organised a symposium celebrating ~150 years of the history of (molecular) chirality. We met for the first time in person for more than 18 months and were treated to a splendid and diverse program about the subject. The first speaker was Professor John Steeds from Bristol, talking about the early history of light and the discovery of its polarisation.

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Published in Science
Authors Bart Kahr, John Freudenthal, Shane Phillips, Werner Kaminsky

Discovered in 1852 and used for polarizing light, the crystal structure of iodoquinine sulfate has been solved.