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Which chemists worked with Claude-Louis Berthollet on the 1787 reform of chemical names?
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Claude-Louis Berthollet
Claude-Louis Berthollet.
In 1787, Claude-Louis Berthollet collaborated with the following chemists on the definitive reform of chemical nomenclature, published in their book Méthode de nomenclature chimique:
- Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier1
- Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau1
- Antoine-François Fourcroy1
This project sought to replace unsystematic names with a standardized system that denoted the constituent parts of chemical compounds.1