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..., one by Strietwiser, and one by Cram - since I was curious about what a Nobel Laureate would do with an undergraduate organic chemistry textbook.

When my son went to France on an undergraduate research grant to study polymer derived ceramics, I scanned a textbook at Princeton for him, since he never took an organic chemistry course but would be working with polymers.

My boss donated a copy of March to him. He still hasn't taken an organic course the little brat. (He's a nuclear materials scientist finishing up his Ph.D.)

To return to Nobel Laureate textbooks:

The standard for Nobel Laureate textbooks is to my mind, Pauling's "The Chemical Bond," which I understand people still read.

It's one on my shelves, and I'm never getting rid of it.

If I recall correctly it was written in the 1930s or 1940s.