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Marcellin Berthelot
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French chemist and politician (1827-1907)
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Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot was a French chemist, physicist, and politician. He worked in physical chemistry, organic chemistry, and politics, and was employed by the Collège de France. Berthelot served as an irremovable senator and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was also an Esperantist who spoke and wrote in Esperanto and French.
Born in Paris in 1827, he was educated at Lycée Henri-IV. He died of a myocardial infarction in Paris in 1907 and is buried in the Panthéon. His spouse was Sophie Berthelot, and they had four children: Philippe, André, René, and Daniel.
Berthelot received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, the Copley Medal, the Davy Medal, and the Concours général. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was a member of the Royal Society, the Société Philomathique de Paris, the Académie Française, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of death
- Paris
- Spouse
- Sophie Berthelot
- Child
- René Berthelot
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- Collège de France
- Languages spoken
- French
- Award
- Concours général
- Doctoral student
- Paul Sabatier
- Field of work
- politics
- Movement
- freethought
- Image
- Marcellin Berthelot.jpg
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- Panthéon
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- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
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- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
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. "Why not", he asked, "if it proved cheaper and better to make the same materials than to grow them?"
He was considered "one of the most famous chemists in the world." Upon being appointed to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs for the French government in 1895, he was considered "the most eminent living chemist" in France. In 1901, he was elected as one of the "Forty Immortals" of the Académie française. He gave all his discoveries not only to the French government but to humanity.
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