William Joseph Wiswesser (1914-1989) had been interested throughout his varied career in simplifying chem. structure descriptions. He developed the Wiswesser Line Notation (WLN) which made possible the single-line depiction of every mol., no matter how complicated. Wiswesser learned about the chem. work of Josef Loschmidt (1821-1895) and felt that he had made a great rediscovery, believing that this somewhat obscure chemist was the forerunner of the WLN.
Publisher
Division of the History of Chemistry
ISSN
1053-4385
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
article
Language
eng
Permalink
https://hdl.handle.net/2142/126132
DOI
https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc1998n22p021
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Copyright 1998 Division of the History of Chemistry
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