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Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
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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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Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.
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Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
Boussingault, Jean-Baptiste
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
Wurtz
Charles-Adolphe Wurtz
French chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, detail of an oil painting by Helene Büchmann.
Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff
Dutch chemist
George A. Olah, 2009.
George A. Olah
Hungarian American chemist
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
Russian chemist
Julius Stieglitz
American chemist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
Kekule
August Kekule von Stradonitz
German chemist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Tadeus Reichstein
Swiss chemist
August Wilhelm von Hofmann, oil painting by E. Hader, 1886
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
German chemist
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
British chemist
Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham
British chemist
British chemist and physicist James Dewar
Sir James Dewar
British scientist

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