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Friedl Friedl is a Southern German diminutive variation of the name Fried - or alternately, a diminutive of the feminine given names Elfriede and Frederika. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Friedl Behn-Grund (1906–1989), German cinema ...

is a Southern German diminutive variation of the surname Fried - or alternately, a diminutive of

Elfriede Elfriede, also known as Elfreda, Elfrida, Alfrida, Elfrieda, Elftrude, Elftraut among other variants, is a female given name, derived from ''Ælfþryð'' (Aelfthryth) meaning " elf-strength". The name fell out of fashion in the Middle Ages and was ...

- and may refer to: Four French scientists with the same Friedel family name are in direct lineage, Charles, Georges, Edmond and

Jacques Ancient and noble French family names, Jacques, Jacq, or James are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over ...

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Charles Friedel Charles Friedel (; 12 March 1832 – 20 April 1899) was a French chemist and mineralogist. Life A native of Strasbourg, France, he was a student of Louis Pasteur at the Sorbonne. In 1876, he became a professor of chemistry and mineralogy at t ...

(1832–1899), French chemist known for the

Friedel–Crafts reaction The Friedel–Crafts reactions are a set of reactions developed by Charles Friedel and James Crafts in 1877 to attach substituents to an aromatic ring. Friedel–Crafts reactions are of two main types: alkylation reactions and acylation reacti ...

* 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 Other people: * Brad Friedel, American international football (soccer) goalkeeper *

Frederic Friedel Frederic Alois Friedel (born 1945) studied Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Hamburg without graduating. He joined the American sceptical society CSICOP (now the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry). In 1985, he met Garry Kasparov and so ...

, produced documentaries for German TV *

Samuel Friedel Samuel Nathaniel Friedel (April 18, 1898 – March 21, 1979), a Democrat, was a U.S. Congressman who represented the 7th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1953 to January 3, 1971. Born in Washington, D.C., to Russian-Jewish ...

, former U.S. Congressman who represented the 7th congressional district of Maryland *

Joshua Friedel Joshua E. Friedel (born December 3, 1986) is an American chess player with the FIDE title of Grandmaster. He was the U.S. Open Champion in 2013. He has had notable wins against GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Boris Gulko, Ben Finegold, Timur Gareyev, a ...

, American professional chess player * Richard Friedel, (1955- ), U.S. Behavioral Therapist

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Friedel's law Friedel's law, named after Georges Friedel, is a property of Fourier transforms of real functions. Given a real function f(x), its Fourier transform :F(k)=\int^_f(x)e^dx has the following properties. *F(k)=F^*(-k) \, where F^* is the complex ...

, named after Georges Friedel, the crystallographer, is a property of Fourier transforms of real functions *

Friedel's salt Friedel's salt is an anion exchanger mineral belonging to the family of the layered double hydroxides (LDHs). It has affinity for anions as chloride and iodide and is capable of retaining them to a certain extent in its crystallographical stru ...

, discovered by Georges Friedel, is an anion exchanger mineral belonging to the family of the

layered double hydroxides Layered double hydroxides (LDH) are a class of ionic solids characterized by a layered structure with the generic layer sequence cB Z AcBsub>''n'', where c represents layers of metal cations, A and B are layers of hydroxide () anions, and Z are l ...

(LDHs) *

Friedel oscillations Friedel oscillations, named after French physicist Jacques Friedel, arise from localized perturbations in a metallic or semiconductor system caused by a defect in the Fermi gas or Fermi liquid. Friedel oscillations are a quantum mechanical analo ...

, peculiar behavior of electrons near impurities and interfaces in metals

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