Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Charles Adolphe Wurtz

French chemist

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1817

Place of Birth: Strasbourg, France

Date of Death: 12-May-1884

Profession: physician, politician, chemist, university teacher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Charles Adolphe Wurtz (French: [vy?ts]; 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.