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"'There was an indescribable charm in working for Hofmann,' (Frederick) Abel remembered, 'in watching his delight at a new result or his pathetic momentary depression when failure attended the attempt to attain a result which theory indicated. "Another dream is gone," he would mutter plaintively, with a deep sigh.'"
Simon Garfield, Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color that Changed the World (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 2000), 26.
October 2, 2017