Berthelot. For twenty-one years (1852–1872) Wurtz published in the Annales de chimie et de physique abstracts of chemical work done out of France. The publication of his great Dictionnaire de chimie pure et appliquée, in which he was assisted by many other French chemists, was begun in 1869 and finished in 1878; two supplementary volumes were issued 1880–1886, and in 1892 the publication of a second supplement was begun. Among his books are Chimie médicale (1864), Leçons élémentaires de chimie moderne (1867), Théorie des atomes dans la conception générale du monde (1874), La Théorie atomique (1878), Progrés de l'industrie des matières colorantes artificielles (1876) and Traité de chimie biologique (1880–1885). His Histoire des doctrines chimiques, the introductory discourse to his Dictionnaire (also published separately in 1869), opens with the phrase, . Although it raised a storm of protest in Germany, the sentence is less nationalistic than it appears; he intended to refer only to the birth of chemistry under the great Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, rather than asserting exclusive French national ownership of the science. See also Aldol reaction Wurtzite Notes Works References This work in turn cites: Charles Friedel's memoir in the Bulletin de la Société Chimique (1885) Wurtz's life and work, with a list of his publications. August Wilhelm von Hofmann in the Ber. deut. chem. Gesellsch. (1887) Reprinted in vol. iii. of his Zur Erinnerung an vorangegangene Freunde (1888) Further reading External links Charles-Adolphe Wurtz's report on the Karlsruhe Congress (1860) The Atomic Theory, by A. Wurtz (1881) New York: Appleton and Company (scanned copy) Elements of Modern Chemistry, by A. Wurtz (1899) Philadelphia: Lippincott and Company (scanned copy of the third American edition; translated by W. H. Greene) 1817 births 1884 deaths People from Bas-Rhin 19th-century French chemists Recipients of the Copley Medal French life senators Faraday Lecturers Members of the French Academy of Sciences Foreign Members of the Royal Society Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Officers of the French Academy of Sciences Deaths from diabetes