Eligio Perucca

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Stereochemistry |workplaces=University of Turin |alma_mater=University of Pisa }}

Eligio Perucca (28 March 1890– 5 January 1965) was an Italian physics instructor and researcher at the University of Turin in Italy in the early decades of the twentieth century. He later served a professorship at the nearby Polytechnic University of Turin. He discovered an important principle in stereochemistry in 1919, but his contribution was overlooked and forgotten until recently. Provided by Wikipedia