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. Wurtz was also an influential writer and educator. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Adolphe Wurtz is the 183rd most popular chemist (up from 205th in 2019), the 829th most popular biography from France (up from 1,259th in 2019) and the 20th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Charles Adolphe Wurtz ranks 183 out of 602. Before him are Robert Curl, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Felix Hoffmann, Peter J. Ratcliffe, Marcellin Berthelot, and Ernest Solvay. After him are Fritz Albert Lipmann, Sidney Altman, Gerhard Herzberg, Robert Huber, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, and Thomas A. Steitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Charles Adolphe Wurtz ranks 10. Before him are Ivan Aivazovsky, William III of the Netherlands, Syed Ahmad Khan, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Charles-François Daubigny. After him are Carl Nägeli, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Niels Gade, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, and Princess Clémentine of Orléans. Among people deceased in 1884, Charles Adolphe Wurtz ranks 10. Before him are Elias Lönnrot, Marie Taglioni, Hermann Kolbe, Cetshwayo kaMpande, Paul Morphy, and Johann Gustav Droysen. After him are Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Marie Bashkirtseff, Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal, Fanny Elssler, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, and Alfred Brehm.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Adolphe Wurtz ranks 829 out of 6,770. Before him are Eugène Sue (1804), Jean-Pierre Léaud (1944), Maria Schneider (1952), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), and Robert Nivelle (1856). After him are Roscellinus (1050), Georges Sorel (1847), Louis, Prince of Condé (1530), Louise of Savoy (1476), Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736), and Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (1676).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Charles Adolphe Wurtz ranks 20. Before him are Joseph Proust (1754), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838), Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), and Marcellin Berthelot (1827). After him are Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), Nicolas Leblanc (1742), and Luis Federico Leloir (1906).

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