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French chemist and mineralogist (1832?1899)
Charles Friedel
(
French:
[f?id?l]
; 12 March 1832 ? 20 April 1899) was a French chemist and
mineralogist
.
Life
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A native of
Strasbourg
, France, he was a student of
Louis Pasteur
at the
Sorbonne
. In 1876, he became a professor of chemistry and
mineralogy
at the Sorbonne.
Friedel developed the
Friedel-Crafts
alkylation
and
acylation
reactions with
James Crafts
in 1877,
[2]
[3]
and attempted to make
synthetic diamonds
.
His son
Georges Friedel
(1865?1933) also became a renowned mineralogist.
Lineage
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- Friedel's wife's father was the engineer,
Charles Combes
.
[4]
The
Friedel family
is a rich lineage of French scientists:
- Georges Friedel
(1865?1933), French crystallographer and mineralogist; son of Charles
- Edmond Friedel
(1895?1972), French Polytechnician and mining engineer, founder of
BRGM
, the French geological survey; son of Georges
- Jacques Friedel
(1921?2014), French physicist; son of Edmond
References
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- ^
Asimov,
Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
2nd Revised edition
- ^
Friedel, C.; Crafts, J.-M. (1877).
"Sur une nouvelle methode generale de synthese d'hydrocarbures, d'acetones, etc"
.
Compt. Rend
.
84
: 1392?1395.
- ^
Friedel, C.; Crafts, J.-M. (1877).
"Sur une nouvelle methode generale de synthese d'hydrocarbures, d'acetones, etc"
.
Compt. Rend
.
84
: 1450?1454.
- ^
Charles Combes
Archived
May 16, 2009, at the
Wayback Machine
, quercy.net, accessed April 2010
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