Charles Adolphe Wurtz 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... Wikipedia
Born: November 26, 1817, Wolfisheim, France
Died: May 10, 1884 (age 66 years), Paris, France
Awards: Copley Medal
Education: University of Giessen and Strasbourg University
Doctoral students: Charles Friedel; Armand Gautier
Other notable students: Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff; Alexander Zaytsev
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