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Claude Louis Berthollet

1748 - 1822

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Claude Louis Berthollet (French pronunciation: [klod lwi bɛʁtɔlɛ], 9 December 1748 – 6 November 1822) was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804. He is known for his scientific contributions to the theory of chemical equilibria via the mechanism of reverse chemical reactions, and for his contribution to modern chemical nomenclature. On a practical basis, Berthollet was the first to demonstrate the bleaching action of chlorine gas, and was first to develop a solution of sodium hypochlorite as a modern bleaching agent. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Claude Louis Berthollet is the 115th most popular chemist (down from 63rd in 2019), the 575th most popular biography from France (down from 561st in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Chemist.

Claude Louis Berthollet was a French chemist and the first to use the word "analysis." He is most famous for his work with acids and bases, and is credited with the discovery of hydrochloric acid.

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Among chemists, Claude Louis Berthollet ranks 115 out of 602. Before him are Yves Chauvin, Jacques Monod, Irving Langmuir, Manfred Eigen, Melvin Calvin, and Avram Hershko. After him are Gilbert N. Lewis, Michael Levitt, Lars Onsager, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Edward W. Morley, and William Crookes.

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Among people born in 1748, Claude Louis Berthollet ranks 8. Before him are Jeremy Bentham, Charles XIII of Sweden, Charles IV of Spain, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, and Olympe de Gouges. After him are Adam Weishaupt, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, William V, Prince of Orange, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Adamantios Korais, and Anders Sparrman. Among people deceased in 1822, Claude Louis Berthollet ranks 6. Before him are William Herschel, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Ali Pasha of Ioannina, Antonio Canova, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. After him are Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, René Just Haüy, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Giovanni Battista Venturi, and Johann Matthäus Bechstein.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Louis Berthollet ranks 575 out of 6,770. Before him are Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882), Theuderic I (485), Henry I, Duke of Guise (1550), Richard Clayderman (1953), Marcel Marceau (1923), and Hippolyte Taine (1828). After him are Marius Petipa (1818), René Guénon (1886), Ambroise Paré (1510), Isabelle Adjani (1955), France Gall (1947), and Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Claude Louis Berthollet ranks 13. Before him are Victor Grignard (1871), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Paul Sabatier (1854), Joseph Black (1728), and Jacques Monod (1910). After him are Joseph Proust (1754), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838), Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), and Marcellin Berthelot (1827).

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