Charles Adolphe Wurtz
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 140 years ago |
Date of birth | November 26,1817 |
Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
Born | Wolfisheim |
France | |
Date of died | May 10,1884 |
Died | Paris |
France | |
Nationality | French |
Known for | Wurtz reaction |
Awards | Faraday Lectureship Prize |
Copley Medal | |
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ID | 712016 |
Charles Adolphe Wurtz Life story
Charles Adolphe Wurtz 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.