Famous People with Name Adolphe

Adolphe Charles Adam            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Adolphe Charles Adam: was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1844) and Le Corsaire (1856, his last work), his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836), Le toréador (1849) and Si j'étais roi (1852, often regarded as his finest work), and his Christmas carol Minuit, chrétiens! (O Holy Night) (1847). Adam was also a noted teacher. Léo Delibes was among his pupils.

Adolphe Wurtz            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Adolphe Wurtz: was a French chemist. He is perhaps best remembered by chemists for the Wurtz reaction, to form carbon-carbon bonds by reacting alkyl halides with sodium, and for his discoveries of ethylamine and ethylene glycol. Wurtz was also an influential writer and educator.Wurtz's first published paper was on hypophosphorous acid (1841), and the continuation of his work on the acids of phosphorus (1845) resulted in the discovery of suiphophosphoric acid and phosphorus oxychloride, as well as of copper hydride. But his original work was mainly in the domain of organic chemistry. Investigation of the cyanic ethers (1848) yielded a class of substances which opened out a new field in organic chemistry, for, by treating those ethers with caustic potash, he obtained methylamine, the simplest organic derivative of ammonia (1849)

Adolphe Boucard            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Adolphe Boucard: was a French ornithologist who collected extensively in Mexico and Central America. He concentrated in collecting hummingbirds and sold many of these to the plume trade. He published the periodical The Hummingbird (1891-95). He spent his later years in En

Adolphe D'Archiac            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Adolphe D'Archiac: was a French geologist and paleontologist.His great work was Histoire des progrès de la géologie de 1834 à 1859, published in eight volumes (1847-1860). In the same year, with Jules Haime (1824-1856), he published a monograph on the Nummulitic formation o

Adolphe Dugléré            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Adolphe Dugléré: was a French chef and a pupil of Carême.In 1866 he became the head chef of the Café Anglais which was the most famous Paris restaurant of the 19th century and where he is believed to have created the dish Pommes Anna. The Café Anglais was named in honour