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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 theory of chemical equilibria via the mechanism of reverse chemical reactions, and for his contribution to modern chemical nomenclature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Louis Berthollet has received more than 126,872 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Claude Louis Berthollet is the 59th most popular chemist (down from 52nd in 2019), the 595th most popular biography from France (up from 602nd in 2019) and the 11th 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

Among chemists, Claude Louis Berthollet ranks 59 out of 509. Before him are Fritz Pregl, Adolf Butenandt, Hans Fischer, Kurt Alder, Jacques Monod, and Melvin Calvin. After him are Kary Mullis, Friedrich Bergius, Irving Langmuir, Tadeusz Reichstein, Adolf Windaus, and Arne Tiselius.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Louis Berthollet ranks 595 out of 6,011. Before him are Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France (1290), Thomas Bangalter (1), Pope Nicholas II (990), Louis I, Duke of Orléans (1372), Joan of France, Duchess of Berry (1464), and Francis, Duke of Guise (1519). After him are Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), Lucien Febvre (1878), Héloïse (1101), Sophie Marceau (1966), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), and Pasquale Paoli (1725).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Claude Louis Berthollet ranks 11. Before him are Henri Moissan (1852), Alfred Werner (1866), Victor Grignard (1871), Joseph Black (1728), Paul Sabatier (1854), and Jacques Monod (1910). After him are Joseph Proust (1754), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), and Marcellin Berthelot (1827).

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