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Also Known As	rotation, optical • optical rotation

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dextrorotatory levorotatory specific rotation pleochroism double refraction Brewster’s law optical crystallography Faraday effect polarization uniaxial crystal

Key People

Werner Kuhn

Swiss chemist

Le Bel

Joseph-Achille Le Bel

French chemist

Frederic Stanley Kipping

British chemist