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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 26 November 1817
- Died
- 12 May 1884
- Place of birth
- Strasbourg, Wolfisheim
- Place of death
- Paris
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Wurtz
- Father
- Jean Jacques Wurtz
- Spouse
- Constance Opperman
- Occupation
- chemist, politician, university teacher, physician
- Position held
- irremovable senator, Mayor of 7th arrondissement of Paris, president of the French Academy of Sciences
- Citizenship
- France
- Religion
- Protestantism
- Awards
- Copley Medal, Faraday Lectureship Prize, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Jecker Prize, 72 names on the Eiffel Tower, honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), The Nuttall Encyclopædia, New International Encyclopedia, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 11
- doctoral student
- Émile Lemoine, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Armand Gautier
- educated at
- University of Strasbourg, University of Giessen, Jean Sturm Gymnasium, Séminaire protestant de Strasbourg
- member of
- Royal Society, Société Philomathique de Paris, French Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Société Chimique de France, Académie Nationale de Médecine, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, National Academy of Sciences, Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, Academy of Sciences of Turin
- name in native language
- Charles Adolphe Wurtz
- notable work
- Wurtz reaction
- place of burial
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
- significant event
- funeral
- student of
- Justus von Liebig, Jean-Baptiste Dumas
- work location
- Paris
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