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Article: Claude Louis Berthollet: A Great Chemist in +he french Tradition.
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- Canadian Chemical News
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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The remarkable accomplishments of a leading French chemist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are summarized in this paper.
Claude Louis Berthollet was born in Savoy, Italy, of French parents, in 1748, and died in Arcueil, near Paris, in 1822. He was naturalized as a French citizen in 1780 [1]. He studied medicine at the University of Turin and graduated from there with a doctoral degree at the early age of 22. He began his career as a physician, but shortly thereafter his interest turned to the field of chemistry where he was to remain for the rest of his life. Interestingly, Berthollet's famous compatriot Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907) also ...