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ENGRAVING: "Wurrtz (Charles-Adolphe) ne en 1817".from the Centenaire de la Faculté de médecine de Paris (1794-1894).
Published by Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, 1906
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
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Unbound. Condition: Very Good. B/w Engraving, Unknown Artist (illustrator). 1st. 10" x 12.75" b/w engraving as shown; faint stamp on reverse. Charles Adolphe Wurtz (French: [vy?ts]; 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. Size: 10" x 12.75".
