Le Bel, Joseph Achille
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Le Bel,
Joseph Achille, French chemist, 1847-1930.Le Bel-van't Hoff rule - the number of stereoisomers of an organic compound is 2n where n represents the number of asymmetric carbon atoms unless there is an internal plane of symmetry.