Charles Adolphe Wurtz
French chemist (1817–1884) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Charles Adolphe Wurtz (French: [vyʁts]; 26 November 1817 – 10 May 1884) was an Alsatian French chemist. He is best remembered for his decades-long advocacy for the atomic theory and for ideas about the structures of chemical compounds, against the skeptical opinions of chemists such as Marcellin Berthelot and Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville. He is well known by organic chemists for the Wurtz reaction, to form carbon-carbon bonds by reacting alkyl halides with sodium, and for his discoveries of ethylamine, ethylene glycol, and the aldol reaction. Wurtz was also an influential writer and educator.
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Adolphe Wurtz | |
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Born | (1817-11-26)26 November 1817 Wolfisheim, near Strasbourg, France |
Died | 10 May 1884(1884-05-10) (aged 66) Paris, France |
Nationality (legal) | French |
Alma mater | University of Strasbourg |
Known for | Wurtz reaction |
Awards | Faraday Lectureship Prize (1879) Copley Medal (1881) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemistry |
Doctoral advisor | Amédée Cailliot |
Other academic advisors | Justus von Liebig |
Doctoral students | Charles Friedel Armand Gautier |
Other notable students | Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Alexander Zaytsev |
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