CHEMIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Louis Berthollet has received more than 136,754 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Claude Louis Berthollet is the 63rd most popular chemist (down from 59th in 2019), the 561st most popular biography from France (up from 595th in 2019) and the 10th 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 63 out of 602. Before him are Arne Tiselius, Jacques Monod, Otto Diels, Theodor Svedberg, Norman Haworth, and Richard Willstätter. After him are Hans Fischer, Joseph Black, Tadeusz Reichstein, Jan Baptist van Helmont, Paul J. Crutzen, and Joseph Proust.

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

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Louis Berthollet ranks 561 out of 6,770. Before him are Louise de La Vallière (1644), Maurice Utrillo (1883), Rashi (1040), Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), Suger (1080), and Yolande de Polastron (1749). After him are Philippe Pinel (1745), Joan of France, Duchess of Berry (1464), Auguste de Marmont (1774), Bernard Tapie (1943), Louise Élisabeth of France (1727), and René of Anjou (1409).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Claude Louis Berthollet ranks 10. Before him are Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Henri Moissan (1852), Alfred Werner (1866), Paul Sabatier (1854), Victor Grignard (1871), and Jacques Monod (1910). After him are Joseph Black (1728), Joseph Proust (1754), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), and Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758).

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