a field called 'host-guest' chemistry

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An example of analogy used to progress science:

"Donald J. Cram at U.C.L.A. extended [Charles J.] Pedersen's work to establish a new field that he called 'host-guest' chemistry, in which the host is the receptor molecule and the guest is the substrate received."

Royston M. Roberts


Royston M. Roberts (1989) Serendipity. Accidental discoveries in science

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.