Pierre Eugene Marcellin Berthelot: an illustrious pioneering French chemist.

From: Canadian Chemical News | Date: February 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

This article highlights the numerous achievements of o highly versatile scientist and public servant of the nineteenth century.

Pierre Eugene Marcellin Berthelot was born in Paris on October 25, 1827 and died there on March 18, 1907. He followed courses at Collage Henri IV in Paris and entered the College de France to study medicine, perhaps because his father was a physician. However, he did not continue in medicine after coming tinder the influence of Jean-Baptiste Andre Dumas and other professors, his interest having turned to chemistry. In 1851, he was named assistant to ...

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