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Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Marcellin Berthelot
Born October 27, 1827 • Paris • France
Died March 18, 1907 (aged 79) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1900)
Subjects Of Study acetylene • alcohol • carboxylic acid • endothermic reaction • exothermic reaction • hydrocarbon • nitrogen cycle • reaction rate • explosive

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ean-Baptiste-AndrĂŠ Dumas
Jean-Baptiste-AndrĂŠ Dumas
French chemist
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault
French chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Charles Gerhardt, engraving
Charles Gerhardt
French chemist
Michel-Eugène Chevreul, c. 1860
Michel-Eugène Chevreul
French chemist
Charles-Adolphe Wurtz
Charles-Adolphe Wurtz
French chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, detail of an oil painting by Helene BĂźchmann.
Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff
Dutch chemist
George A. Olah, 2009.
George A. Olah
Hungarian American chemist
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
Russian chemist
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Julius Stieglitz
American chemist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
English chemist
August Kekule von Stradonitz
August Kekule von Stradonitz
German chemist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
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Tadeus Reichstein
Swiss chemist
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
German chemist
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Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
British chemist
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Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham
British chemist
James Dewar
Sir James Dewar
British chemist and physicist

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