Charles Friedel (; 12 March 1832 – 20 April 1899) was a French chemist and Mineralogy.
Life
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. While there he was elected as an honorary member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
[Memoirs and proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society FOURTH SERIES Eighth VOLUME 1894] in 1892.
Friedel developed the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with James Crafts in 1877,
Friedel's wife's father was the engineer, Charles Combes.[ Charles Combes , quercy.net, accessed April 2010] The Friedel family is a rich lineage of French scientists:
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Georges Friedel (1865–1933), French crystallographer and mineralogist; son of Charles
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(1895–1972), French mining engineer, founder of BRGM, the French geological survey; son of Georges
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Jacques Friedel (1921–2014), French physicist; son of Edmond
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