Freshman Organic Chemistry
Fall 2001
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To take this course you must be a freshman,
and
you must have been placed into Chemistry 125 on
the basis of the
Chemistry
Placement Examination
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The first subject of the course is how we know about the existence of atoms, molecules, bonds and the role of authority in science. To begin we will contrast two erroneous treatments of atomic and molecular structure at the turn of the last century. One of them is by two great scientists G. N. Lewis (Lewis dot structures) and J. J. Thomson (discoverer of the electron). The other is by two clairvoyant crackpots (or frauds).
You may enjoy reading some of the web material in preparation for the lectures:
Seeing Atoms with the Mind's Eye
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