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About Charles Adolphe Wurtz
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. 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.
Everything about Charles Adolphe Wurtz →- Occupation
- chemist, politician, university teacher, physician
- Position held
- irremovable senator, Mayor of 7th arrondissement of Paris, president of the French Academy of Sciences
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- November 26, 1817
- Died
- May 12, 1884, May 10, 1884