Adolph Wurtz

Wurtz, Adolphe. Legons elementaires de chimie moderne. Paris Masson, 1867. 

Wurtz, Adolph. A History of Chemical Theory from the Age of Lavoisier to the Present Time. Macmillan and Co., London. 1869. 

Wurtz, Adolphe. "Recherches sur I acide sulfophosphorique et le chloroxyde de phosphore." Annales de chimie et de physique [3] 20 (1847) 480-81. 

Wurtz, Adolphe, and Charles Friedel. "Memoire sur I acide lactique." Annales de chimie etdephysique [3] 63 (1861) 101-24. 

Wurtz, Adolphe (1858), letter to Alexander Williamson, 19 June, Flarris Collection, Bloomsbury Science Library, University College London. 

Wurtz, Adolphe (1858-59), Avant-propos, Repertoire de chimie pure, 1, 5. 

Wurtz, Adolphe, La thiorie atomique, Paris, G. Bailli re, 1879. 

Shortly thereafter but independently of Kekule Archibald S Couper a Scot working m the laboratory of Charles Adolphe Wurtz at the Ecole de Medicine m Pans and Alexan der Butlerov a Russian chemist at the University of Kazan proposed similar theories... 

Some indication of the differences can be found by analysing some criticisms. .. upon the periodic classification solicited in 1881 by the editor of the Chemical News from Adolphe Wurtz, a celebrated Parisian chemist of the time. (Wurtz s note follows notes from Mendeleev and from Lothar Meyer forming their famous priority dispute.)... 

Dumas s Parisian school also became known as the French school of chemistry. Theophile Jules Pelouze complained about Dumas that he was using the theory of substitution to elevate himself to the position of "Chef de l Ecole" of the new organic chemistry. Adolphe Wurtz praised Dumas in saying that "the basic lines [of the substitution theory] are indelibly drawn, and it was the French School that drew them." 13... 

Hermann Kopp, Geschichte der Chemie, 4 vols. (Braunschweig Vieweg, 18431847). Adolphe Wurtz, A History of Chemical Theory, trans. Henry Watts (London Macmillan, 1869), on 1. As so often happens in historical mythologies, Wurtz s account had meaning for a contemporary quarrel in his own immediate scientific community. See Alan J. Rocke, "The Quiet Revolution of the 1850s Scientific Theory as Social Production and Empirical Practice," in Seymour Mauskopf, ed., Chemical Sciences in the Modern World (Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, in press). 

Marcellin Berthelot, La revolution chimique Lavoisier (Paris Alcan, 1890) and Adolphe Wurtz, "Histoire des doctrines chimiques depuis Lavoisier," introductory essay to Dictionnaire de chimie pure et appliquee, 3 vols. (Paris Hachette, 18681878), trans. Henry Watts, History of Chemical Theory (London Macmillan, 1869). 

Adolphe Wurtz, Introduction a Vetude de la chimie (Paris Masson, 1885). 

Georges Salet, "Affinite," 6983, in Adolphe Wurtz, ed., Dictionnaire de Chimie Pure et Appliquee, 3 vols. 

Michael, A. J. Prakt. Chem. 1887, 35, 349. Arthur Michael (1853-1942) was horn in Buffalo, New York. He studied under Robert Bunsen, August Hofmann, Adolphe Wurtz, and Dimitri Mendeleev, but never bothered to take a degree. Back to the United States, Michael became a Professor of Chemistry at Tufts University, where he married one of his most brilliant students, Helen Abbott, one of the few women organic chemists in this period. Since he failed miserably as an administrator, Michael and his wife set up their own private laboratory at Newton Center, Massachusetts, where the Michael addition was discovered. 

Adolph Wurtz, 1817—1884. Professor of chemistry at the ficole de Medecine in Pans. Discoverer of methyl and ethyl amines and the synthesis of hydrocarbons from alkyl iodides and sodium. He studied the oxidation products of the glycols and the homologs of lactic acid The proof of the elementary nature of gallium was demonstrated in his laboratory by Lecoq de Boisbaudran. 

Furthermore, we have studies on M. Berthelot s (1897-1907) contributions to the development of the notion of isomerism 169 the errors of Alfred Werner in his account of spontaneous resolution, mainly due to his neglect of the work of others 170 Adolphe Wurtz s insistence on atomism and its cultural milieu 171,172 and the early applications of infra-red spectroscopy to chemistry.173... 

A. Cameiro, Adolphe Wurtz and the atomism controversy , Ambix, 1993, 40, 75-95. 

A. J. Rocke, Nationalizing Science Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French Chemistry, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000. 

Adolphe Wurtz, Dictionnaire de Chimie (Paris Hachette, n.d.), 1 i. 

The offending papers were published almost simultaneously in 1874. Although they were completely independent of one another and argued in very different ways, they arrived at the same conclusions. Yan t Hoff had studied in the Netherlands, then worked for a while under Kekule in Germany. Then he worked in Charles-Adolphe Wurtz s laboratory in Paris, where he met Le Bel. Le Bel had studied at the Ecole Polytechnique, the great French scientific and technical school that trained technical officers for the army. 

This method was first carried out by Adolph Wurtz in 1885. 

Nationalizing Science Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French... 

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