Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Alsatian-French chemist (died 1884)

Charles Adolphe Wurtz

French chemist (1817–1884)

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 Berthelot and Henri Étienne…