History and philosophy of the life sciences

Dissolution of hypotheses in biochemistry: three case studies

M Fry

Index: Fischer,O. Chemische Berichte, 1900 , vol. 33, p. 3356 Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie, 1881 , vol. 206, p. 132

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... Its composition was determined in the 1830s by Justus von Liebig and Friedrich Wöhler who also ... chemistry of the fifth nucleobase uracil, was determined by Kossel's student Ascoli (1900). ... was critical of the tetranucleotide hypothesis right from the start (Olby 1994, p. 212), there ...