Through twenty-five years of painstaking work, Norwegian physical chemist Odd Hassel confirmed the long-suspected three-dimensional nature of organic molecules, and his work in this field, called conf...
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One of a set of twins, Odd Hassel was born May 17, 1897, in Kristiana (now Oslo), Norway. His father Ernst was a gynecologist. His mother, Mathilde Klaveness Hassel, raised her four sons and one daugh...
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