Wurtz, Charles Adolphe (1817-1884)

Sur le glycol ou alcool diatomique. Produced in Paris.

1856

9ff 9 ff. 4to. 20 x 16 cm..

Purchased 1931.

Glycol was first discovered by Wurtz when professor of chemistry at the Faculté de Médecine, Paris. He had obtained his M.D. at Strassburg in 1843 having previously been an Assistant to Liebig at Giessen in 1842. In 1843 he succeeded Dumas at the Faculté de Médecine, and was later professor of chemistry at the Sorbonne in 1857.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).