Friedel family
# Friedel family

Four French scientists with the same Friedel family name are in direct lineage, Charles, Georges, Edmond and Jacques:

* Charles Friedel (1832–1899), French chemist known for the Friedel-Crafts reaction
* Georges Friedel (1865–1933), French crystallographer and mineralogist; son of Charles
* Edmond Friedel (1895–1972), French polytechnician and mining engineer, founder of BRGM, the French geological survey; son of Georges
* Jacques Friedel, (1921–2014), French physicist; son of Edmond, see the French site for Jacques Friedel

## Related items

* Friedel–Crafts reaction, a type of organic reaction developed by Charles Friedel and James Crafts in 1877.
* Friedel's law, named after Georges Friedel, the crystallographer, is a property of Fourier transforms of real functions.
* Friedel's salt, discovered by Georges Friedel, is an anion exchanger mineral belonging to the family of the layered double hydroxides (LDHs).
