Charles-Adolphe Wurtz
French chemist
Died when: 66 years 166 days (797 months)Star 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.
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