Henry Wurtz

Henry Wurtz (5 June 1828 in Easton, Pennsylvania – 1910) was an American chemist. He graduated from Princeton in 1848, and then studied chemistry at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard. In 1851, he became instructor at the Yale (now Sheffield) Scientific School, and from 1853 to 1855 he was chemist to the geological survey of New Jersey. He was chosen professor of chemistry at the Medical college in Kingston, Canada in 1857, and a year later accepted a similar chair at the National Medical College in Washington, D. C. At the same time he was examiner in the chemical division of the United States Patent Office until 1861. Later, Prof. Wurtz moved to New York. Provided by Wikipedia