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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...
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  • In organic chemistry, the Wurtz reaction, named after Charles Adolphe Wurtz, is a coupling reaction in which two alkyl halides are treated with sodium...
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  • compounds. Following the work of Charles Adolphe Wurtz on the sodium-induced coupling of alkyl halides (the Wurtz reaction), Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig extended...
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    produced in 2005. Methylamine was first prepared in 1849 by Charles-Adolphe Wurtz via the hydrolysis of methyl isocyanate and related compounds. An example...
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    German composer Wurtz B. Wurtz (Bill Wurtz), American sculptor Bill Wurtz, American video creator and musician Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (1817–1884), French...
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    part of his career, performed research in the laboratory of Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (1817-1884). In 1881, he became médecin des hôpitaux, and four years...
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    polyethylene terephthalate. According to most sources, French chemist Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (1817–1884) first prepared ethylene glycol in 1856. He first treated...
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    invitation, and sponsorship of the conference were handled by August Kekulé, Adolphe Wurtz, and Karl Weltzien. As an example of the problems facing the delegates...
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    Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia, and named for French chemist Charles-Adolphe Wurtz. It has widespread distribution. In Europe it is reported from Příbram...
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    atoms was established that a clear light was thrown on this subject." Adolphe Wurtz (1880). The Atomic Theory, p. 291: "It is in this manner that the theory...
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    presence of chlorine and sunlight, and then by the French chemist Charles Adolphe Wurtz by hydrolysis of chloroacetyl chloride (ClCH2COCl), also in 1857. Chloroacetic...
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    engineer NE01 DAGUERRE Louis Daguerre artist and chemist NE02 WURTZ Charles-Adolphe Wurtz chemist NE03 LE VERRIER Urbain Le Verrier astronomer NE04 PERDONNET...
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    Ethanolamines, or in particular, their salts, were discovered by Charles Adolphe Wurtz in 1860 by heating 2-chloroethanol with ammonia solution while studying...
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    the discovery of which is jointly credited to Borodin and Charles Adolphe Wurtz. Borodin investigated the condensation of valerian aldehyde and oenanth...
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  • (1814–1885), painter Émile Küss (1815–1871), physician and politician Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1818–1884), chemist Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1818–1856), chemist...
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    chemical studies, studying with Hermann Kolbe in Marburg, and with Charles Adolphe Wurtz in Paris. This went directly against the accepted norms of the day,...
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    Phosphoryl chloride was first reported in 1847 by the French chemist Adolphe Wurtz by reacting phosphorus pentachloride with water. The commercial method...
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    studied under Du Bois-Reymond, Helmholz, Claude Bernard and Charles Adolphe Wurtz. In 1866 he earned his medical degree at the University of Bonn, and...
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    Wilhelm Philippe Schimper Charles Xavier Thomas Pierre Weiss Charles-Adolphe Wurtz Mehdi Baala Yann Ehrlacher Valérien Ismaël Sébastien Loeb Yvan Muller...
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    Gerhardt, Edward Frankland, William Odling, Auguste Laurent, Charles-Adolphe Wurtz and others, Kekulé was the principal formulator of the theory of chemical...
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    cholinesterase inhibitor (tetraethyl pyrophosphate, TEPP). He worked in Adolphe Wurtz's laboratory in Paris. Recherches sur les composés octyliques (1870)...
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    (1878) Rudolf Clausius (1879) James Joseph Sylvester (1880) Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1881) Arthur Cayley (1882) William Thomson (1883) Carl Ludwig (1884)...
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    University of Heidelberg for six months. He later worked with Charles-Adolphe Wurtz in Paris and, for 11 months, as chief of the chemical laboratory at...
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  • photographic process. Julius Pintsch produces Pintsch gas. Charles-Adolphe Wurtz produces compound ureas. George Wilson publishes The Life of the Hon...
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  • composer) Alexander Borodin in 1869 and by the French chemist Charles-Adolphe Wurtz in 1872, which originally used aldehydes to perform the reaction. Howard...
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    It is a colorless liquid. This diol was first described by Charles-Adolphe Wurtz in 1859. It is produced industrially by hydration of 1,2-epoxybutane...
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    Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816–1856) Emil Kopp (1817–1875) Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (1817–1884) Auguste Nefftzer (1820–1876) August Kayser (*1821–1885)...
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    cristaux bons conducteurs de l'électricité Doctoral advisor Charles Adolphe Wurtz Doctoral students Henri Becquerel Georges Urbain André-Louis Debierne...
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    then studied in Bonn, Germany, with August Kekulé and in Paris with Adolphe Wurtz. He received his doctorate under Eduard Mulder at the University of...
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    glycol was first reported in 1859. Both A. V. Lourenço and Charles Adolphe Wurtz independently isolated products that were polyethylene glycols. Polyethylene...
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