Friedel family

Updated on Jan 10, 2024

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Four French scientists with the same Friedel family name are in direct lineage, Charles, Georges, Edmond and Jacques:

Charles Friedel (1832–1899), French chemist known for the Friedel-Crafts reaction

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, see the French site for Jacques Friedel

Friedel Crafts Alkylation, a type of organic reaction developed by Charles Friedel and James Crafts in 1877.

Friedel's law, named after Georges Friedel, the crystallographer, is a property of Fourier transforms of real functions.

Friedel's salt, discovered by Georges Friedel, is an anion exchanger mineral belonging to the family of the layered double hydroxides (LDHs).

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