Wooden clogs
- ID-nummer
- 2016.026.001
- Titel
- Wooden clogs
- Objektkategori
- Kläder & assessorer
- Publik beskrivning
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When Ben Feringa grew up on his parents’ farm in the Netherlands, he wore traditional Dutch clogs, and when he put his right foot in the left shoe or vice versa, it hurt. Since then, he has never forgotten the difference between right and left. This was useful when he later devoted himself to chemistry, where mirror symmetry (or “chirality”) is an important concept when describing various molecular properties. Feringa developed a molecule that worked like a rotary motor. A basic problem with the molecular motor was how to control the rotation to the right or left, respectively.
Ben Feringa donated the clogs to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2016. - Pristagare
- Bernard L. Feringa
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