Who coined the word enantiomer?

Subject: Who coined the word enantiomer?

Date: Tue Oct 19 11:05:32 1999
Posted by Grace C. Wong
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Area of science: Science History
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To the person who's going to answer my question,

I'm writing a concept essay for my English class and my topic is on
enantiomers.

Well, I already know that in Greek it means opposite but what I would
really like to find out is who decided to call it an

enantiomer, and is Louis Pasteur considered as the founder 'cos afterall he
did accidently discovered the 2  different

crystals and separated them with a forcep!

Thanks a lot.

Yours sincerely,
Grace C. Wong

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