Charles Friedel
Charles Friedel was a French chemist and mineralogist.
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 in 1892.Friedel developed the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with James Crafts in 1877, and attempted to make synthetic diamonds.
Friedel's wife's father was the engineer, Charles Combes. The Friedel family is a rich lineage of French scientists:
- Georges Friedel, French crystallographer and mineralogist; son of Charles
- , French mining engineer, founder of BRGM, the French geological survey; son of Georges
- Jacques Friedel, French physicist; son of Edmond