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Elixir

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In the 1830s, two scientists in Paris, Édouard Laugier and Auguste Laurens, set themselves the ambitious task of unraveling the mystery of what distinguishes living matter from nonliving matter. The accepted scientific tradition of the time deemed this impossible, so the young men were considered madmen and outcasts from the established scientific community. During the day, they worked in a perfume shop, producing oils and perfume ingredients, and in the evenings, they began their own chemical experiments. And one day, their quest yielded a result that remains unexplained to this day.

In her book, Elixir, historian Thérèse Levitt tells two inextricably intertwined stories: the development of the perfume industry in France and the emergence of organic chemistry. Together, these stories led chemists to one of the most astonishing scientific discoveries related to the mystery of the origin of life on Earth.
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