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Nature 412, 381-382 (26 July 2001) | doi:10.1038/35086634

Reactions of a chemical nature

Georges Bram1

A small street in Paris, and a street and a statue in Strasbourg, are now the only visible reminders of the distinguished nineteenth-century French chemist Charles-Adolphe Wurtz — the man who famously wrote that "chemistry is a French science". Wurtz was a senator, a member of the French Academy of Sciences and a professor of organic chemistry at the Sorbonne.