Edward Frankland first reported the compound in 1848 from zinc and ethyl iodide, the first organozinc compound discovered.
In 1859 Frankland passed a night on the very top of Mont Blanc in company with John Tyndall.
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Basing his ideas on those of predecessors such as Williamson, Edward Frankland, William Odling, Auguste Laurent, Charles Adolphe Wurtz and others, Kekulé was the principal formulator of the theory of chemical structure (1857–58).