CHEMIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcellin Berthelot has received more than 231,804 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Marcellin Berthelot is the 167th most popular chemist (down from 136th in 2019), the 1,054th most popular biography from France (down from 963rd 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 167 out of 602. Before him are Bengt I. Samuelsson, Harry Kroto, Stanislao Cannizzaro, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Paul Flory, and George Andrew Olah. After him are Ei-ichi Negishi, Ernst Chain, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, Alexander R. Todd, Ascanio Sobrero, and Sophia Brahe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Marcellin Berthelot ranks 10. Before him are Francisco Solano López, Ellen G. White, Joseph Lister, Heonjong of Joseon, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, and Deodoro da Fonseca. After him are William Holman Hunt, Charles De Coster, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, Mangal Pandey, and Jyotirao Phule. Among people deceased in 1907, Marcellin Berthelot ranks 21. Before him are Joseph Joachim, Jean Casimir-Perier, Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, Kato Svanidze, Princess Clémentine of Orléans, and Paula Modersohn-Becker. After him are Ilia Chavchavadze, Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, Léo Taxil, Franz Sacher, Qiu Jin, and William Henry Perkin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcellin Berthelot ranks 1,054 out of 6,770. Before him are Marie Duplessis (1824), Charles III, Prince of Monaco (1818), Jean Gerson (1363), Jean de La Bruyère (1645), Judith of Bavaria (797), and Albert Marquet (1875). After him are Léon Jouhaux (1879), Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771), Jean Mabillon (1632), Maurice Ronet (1927), Léon Bonnat (1833), and Richard Avenarius (1843).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Marcellin Berthelot ranks 19. Before him are Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), and Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800). After him are Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Nicolas Leblanc (1742), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698), and Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838).

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