CHEMIST

Charles Adolphe Wurtz

1817 - 1884

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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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Adolphe Wurtz has received more than 76,631 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Charles Adolphe Wurtz is the 205th most popular chemist (up from 250th in 2019), the 1,259th most popular biography from France (up from 1,514th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Charles Adolphe Wurtz ranks 205 out of 602. Before him are John Vane, Hermann Kolbe, Osamu Shimomura, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Mario J. Molina, and Nikolay Semyonov. After him are Kenichi Fukui, John Fenn, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, Gerhard Herzberg, Wallace Carothers, and Friedrich Sertürner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Charles Adolphe Wurtz ranks 15. Before him are Niels Gade, Syed Ahmad Khan, Princess Clémentine of Orléans, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Pierre Larousse, and Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg. After him are Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Theodor Storm, Austen Henry Layard, Hermann Lotze, C. H. D. Buys Ballot, and Albert von Kölliker. Among people deceased in 1884, Charles Adolphe Wurtz ranks 13. Before him are Johann Gustav Droysen, Paul Morphy, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, Hermann Kolbe, and Fanny Elssler. After him are Alfred Brehm, Karl Richard Lepsius, Allan Pinkerton, Hans Makart, Alexander, Prince of Orange, and Jules Bastien-Lepage.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Adolphe Wurtz ranks 1,259 out of 6,770. Before him are Didier Pironi (1952), Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1460), Élisabeth Borne (1961), Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (1393), Clément Ader (1841), and Philipp Spener (1635). After him are Jules Chéret (1836), Guy, Count of Flanders (1226), André Masson (1896), Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (1774), Aimé Jacquet (1941), and Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil (1831).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Charles Adolphe Wurtz ranks 23. Before him are Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Nicolas Leblanc (1742), and Louis Jacques Thénard (1777). After him are Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698), Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838), Luis Federico Leloir (1906), Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), Bernard Courtois (1777), and André-Louis Debierne (1874).

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