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Article: Friedel, Georges
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Friedel, Georges
(
b.
Mulhouse, France, 19 July 1865;
d.
Strasbourg, France, 11 December 1933)
crystallograbhy
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Georges Friedel was the son of the famous chemist Charles Friedel (1832
–
1899), who taught mineralogy and organic chemistry at the University of Paris and was, at the same time, the curator of the mineralogical collections of the School of Mines. Charles
’
s father was a banker in Strasbourg; his maternal grandfather was Georges Duvernoy, a co-worker of Cuvier and his successor at the Coll
è
ge de France. The Friedel family had left their Alsatian home before the Franco-Prussian War. Georges spent his childhood, untill the age of fifteen, in Paris, where his parents