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Marcellin Berthelot

1827 - 1907

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Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot (French: [bɛʁtəlo]; 25 October 1827 – 18 March 1907) was a French chemist and Republican politician noted for the Thomsen–Berthelot principle of thermochemistry. He synthesized many organic compounds from inorganic substances, providing a large amount of counter-evidence to the theory of Jöns Jakob Berzelius that organic compounds required organisms in their synthesis. Berthelot was convinced that chemical synthesis would revolutionize the food industry by the year 2000, and that synthesized foods would replace farms and pastures. "Why not", he asked, "if it proved cheaper and better to make the same materials than to grow them?" He was considered "one of the most famous chemists in the world." Upon being appointed to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs for the French government in 1895, he was considered "the most eminent living chemist" in France. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marcellin Berthelot is the 181st most popular chemist (down from 167th in 2019), the 827th most popular biography from France (up from 1,054th in 2019) and the 19th most popular French Chemist.

Marcellin Berthelot was a French chemist who is most famous for his work in organic chemistry. He was one of the first chemists to identify the composition of benzene and to synthesize it.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Marcellin Berthelot ranks 181 out of 602. Before him are Alan J. Heeger, Max Perutz, Robert Curl, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Felix Hoffmann, and Peter J. Ratcliffe. After him are Ernest Solvay, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Fritz Albert Lipmann, Sidney Altman, Gerhard Herzberg, and Robert Huber.

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Among people born in 1827, Marcellin Berthelot ranks 7. Before him are Joseph Lister, Johanna Spyri, Arnold Böcklin, Josef Strauss, Ellen G. White, and Francisco Solano López. After him are Heonjong of Joseon, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, Deodoro da Fonseca, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, William Holman Hunt, and Charles De Coster. Among people deceased in 1907, Marcellin Berthelot ranks 14. Before him are Giosuè Carducci, Asaph Hall, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Hector Malot, Alfred Jarry, and Kato Svanidze. After him are Pierre Janssen, Jean Casimir-Perier, Robert I, Duke of Parma, Joseph Joachim, Paula Modersohn-Becker, and Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcellin Berthelot ranks 827 out of 6,770. Before him are Gabriel Tarde (1843), Jacques Charles (1763), Eugène Sue (1804), Jean-Pierre Léaud (1944), Maria Schneider (1952), and Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949). After him are Robert Nivelle (1856), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), Roscellinus (1050), Georges Sorel (1847), Louis, Prince of Condé (1530), and Louise of Savoy (1476).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Marcellin Berthelot ranks 19. Before him are Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Joseph Proust (1754), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838), and Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758). After him are Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), and Nicolas Leblanc (1742).

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