Claude Louis Berthollet
1748 – 1822 · aged 74
French chemist (1748-1822)
- Born
- 9 Dec 1748 · Talloires
- Died
- 6 Nov 1822 · Arcueil
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- 9 Dec 1748BornBorn in Talloires
- 1784RoleDirector
- 1789AwardFellow of the Royal Society
- 1794RoleProfessor
- 1795RoleProfessor
- 1798 – 1801Took partFrench invasion of Egypt and Syria
- 1799RoleMember of the Sénat conservateur
- 1800 – 1801RolePresident of the French Academy of Sciences
- 1803AwardKnight of the Legion of Honour
- 1804AwardGrand Officer of the Legion of Honour
- 1814 – 1822RolePair of France
- 6 Nov 1822DiedDied in Arcueil
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- 1756 – 1763Seven Years' War
- c. 1760 – 1840Industrial Revolution
- 1765 – 1783American Revolution
- 1789 – 1799French Revolution
- 1812 – 1815War of 1812
- 1814 – 1815Congress of Vienna
Biography
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. On a practical basis, Berthollet was the first to demonstrate the bleaching action of chlorine gas, and was first to develop a solution of sodium hypochlorite as a modern bleaching agent.
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