Charles Friedel

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Residence France Nationality French Name Charles Friedel		Fields MineralogyChemistry Role Chemist Institutions Sorbonne

Alma mater University of StrasbourgSorbonne Died April 20, 1899, Montauban, France Children Georges Friedel, Jean Friedel Grandchildren Edmond Friedel, Henri Friedel Education University of Paris, University of Strasbourg Similar People James Crafts, Louis Pasteur, Andre‑Louis Debierne, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie
Notable students Andre-Louis Debierne Great grandchildren Jacques Friedel

Charles Friedel ([fʁidɛl]; 12 March 1832 – 20 April 1899) was a French chemist and mineralogist. 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.

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Friedel developed the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with James Crafts in 1877, and attempted to make synthetic diamonds.

His son Georges Friedel (1865–1933) also became a renowned mineralogist.

Lineage

Friedel's wife's father was the engineer, Charles Combes. 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 (fr)

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