Friedel

Friedel or Friedl is a Southern German diminutive variation of the surname Fried - or alternately, a diminutive of Elfriede - and may refer to:

Four French scientists with the same Friedel family name are in direct lineage, Charles, Georges, 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
• (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

Other people:

• Brad Friedel, American international football (soccer) goalkeeper
• Frederic Friedel, produced documentaries for German TV
• Samuel Friedel, former U.S. Congressman who represented the 7th congressional district of Maryland
• Joshua Friedel, American professional chess player
• , (1955- ), U.S. Behavioral Therapist

Related items[]

• 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)
• Friedel oscillations, peculiar behavior of electrons near impurities and interfaces in metals

See also[]

• Friedl

Surname list

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