Joseph-Achille Le Bel
(1847-1930)

Died aged c. 83

Joseph Achille Le Bel (21 January 1847 in Pechelbronn – 6 August 1930, in Paris, France) was a French chemist. He is best known for his work in stereochemistry. Le Bel was educated at the École Polytechnique in Paris. In 1874 he announced his theory outlining the relationship between molecular structure and optical activity. This discovery laid the foundation of the science of stereochemistry, which deals with the spatial arrangement of atoms in molecules. This hypothesis was put forward in the same year by the Dutch physical chemist Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff and is currently known as Le Bel–van't Hoff rule. Le Bel wrote Cosmologie Rationelle (Rational Cosmology) in 1929.

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Le chimiste Joseph-Achille Le Bel vécut dans cette maison de 1903 a 1930 et en fin don a la Société Chimique de France

English translation: The chemist Joseph-Achille Le Bel lived in this house from 1903 to 1930 and ultimately donated to the Société Chimique de France [AWS Translate]

Societe Chimique De France, 250 Rue St Jacques, Paris, France where they lived