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...

In organic chemistry, the Wurtz reaction, named after Charles Adolphe Wurtz, is a coupling reaction in which two alkyl halides are treated with sodium...

aromatic compounds. Following the work of Charles Adolphe Wurtz on the sodium-induced coupling of alkyl halides (the Wurtz reaction), Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig extended...

Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia, and named for French chemist Charles-Adolphe Wurtz. It has widespread distribution. In Europe it is reported from Příbram...

were produced in 2005. Methylamine was first prepared in 1849 by Charles-Adolphe Wurtz via the hydrolysis of methyl isocyanate and related compounds. An...

German composer Wurtz B. Wurtz (Bill Wurtz), American sculptor Bill Wurtz, American video creator and musician Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (1817–1884), French...

early 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...

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...

Ethanolamines, or in particular, their salts, were discovered by Charles Adolphe Wurtz in 1860 by heating 2-chloroethanol with ammonia solution while studying...

Lehn Wilhelm Philippe Schimper Charles Xavier Thomas Pierre Weiss Charles-Adolphe Wurtz Mehdi Baala Yann Ehrlacher Valérien Ismaël Sébastien Loeb Yvan Muller...

Louis Charles Auguste Steinheil (1814–1885), painter Émile Küss (1815–1871), physician and politician Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1818–1884), chemist Charles Frédéric...

polyethylene glycol was first reported in 1859. Both A. V. Lourenço and Charles Adolphe Wurtz independently isolated products that were polyethylene glycols....

Romantic composer) Alexander Borodin in 1869 and by the French chemist Charles-Adolphe Wurtz in 1872, which originally used aldehydes to perform the reaction...

Charles Friedel (French: [ʃaʁl fʁidɛl]; 12 March 1832 – 20 April 1899) was a French chemist and mineralogist. A native of Strasbourg, France, he was a...

predecessors such as Williamson, Charles Gerhardt, Edward Frankland, William Odling, Auguste Laurent, Charles-Adolphe Wurtz and others, Kekulé was the principal...

reaction, the discovery of which is jointly credited to Borodin and Charles Adolphe Wurtz. Borodin investigated the condensation of valerian aldehyde and...

French mathematicians are missing from the list: Joseph Liouville and Charles Hermite. not to be confused with Jules-Albert de Dion, automobile pioneer...

polyethylene terephthalate. According to most sources, French chemist Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (1817–1884) first prepared ethylene glycol in 1856. He first treated...

(1858). Sketch of a Course of Chemical Philosophy. The Alembic Club. Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1881) The Atomic Theory, D. Appleton and Company, New York. Alan...

Mines, teaching Uwe Jannsen at the same schools, and studying under Charles-Adolphe Wurtz at the École des Beaux Arts and the École de Médecine. Lemoine also...

Boussingault (1878) Rudolf Clausius (1879) James Joseph Sylvester (1880) Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1881) Arthur Cayley (1882) William Thomson (1883) Carl Ludwig (1884)...

to nickel metal by hypophosphite was accidentally discovered by Charles Adolphe Wurtz in 1844. In 1911, François Auguste Roux of L'Aluminium Français...

Boussingault (1878) Rudolf Clausius (1879) James Joseph Sylvester (1880) Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1881) Arthur Cayley (1882) William Thomson (1883) Carl Ludwig (1884)...

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...

presence of chlorine and sunlight, and then by the French chemist Charles Adolphe Wurtz by hydrolysis of chloroacetyl chloride (ClCH2COCl), also in 1857...

Friedrich Julius Schmidt (born 1825), German astronomer. May 10 – Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (born 1817), Alsatian French chemist. May 12 – Robert Angus Smith...

1856 Archibald Scott Couper went to work for a French chemist, Charles-Adolphe Wurtz. Whilst in Paris he came up with the idea of links between atoms...

(1777–1835) Georg Büchner (1813–1837) Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816–1856) Emil Kopp (1817–1875) Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (1817–1884) Auguste Nefftzer (1820–1876)...

Chemistry Charles de Worms (1903–1979), English chemist and lepidopterist Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (1817–1884), Alsatian French chemist, discovered the Wurtz reaction...

general and politician, Viceroy of Liangjiang (d. 1872) 1817 – Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Alsatian-French chemist (d. 1884) 1827 – Ellen G. White, American...