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The question whether our elementary atoms are in their nature indivisible, or whether they are built up of smaller particles, is one upon which I, as a chemist, have no hold whatever, and I may say that in chemistry the question is not raised by any evidence whatever.
Alexander William Williamson
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
Hans Hofmann
Alexander William Williamson
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Born:
May 1, 1824
Died:
May 6, 1904
(aged 80)
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Alexander William Williamson was an English chemist of Scottish descent. He is best known today for the Williamson ether synthesis.
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