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The “Rocky” Road to Literary Fame: Marcel Proust and the Diamond Synthesis of Professor Moissan
Author(s) -
Krätz Otto
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/1521-3773(20011217)40:24<4604::aid-anie4604>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - nobel laureate , art history , diamond , art , philosophy , chemistry , literature , poetry , organic chemistry
What connects the author Marcel Proust , the Chemistry Nobel Laureate Henri Moissan, and the fraudulent engineer Henri François Lemoine? Moissan was obsessed with the idea of preparing artificial diamonds, Lemoine alleged that he had improved the Moissan technique, which only produced diamond dust, and Proust first invested a part of his wealth in the alleged diamond synthesis and then exploited the scandal in a literary work.