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Charles Adolphe Wurtz

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Gender Male
Death140 years ago
Date of birth November 26,1817
Zodiac sign Sagittarius
Born Wolfisheim
France
Date of died May 10,1884
DiedParis
France
NationalityFrench
Known forWurtz reaction
Awards Faraday Lectureship Prize
Copley Medal
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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.

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