biography
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Berthelot, (Pierre Eugène) Marcellin
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pronunciation:
[bairteloh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1827–1907)
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| biography:
| Chemist and French statesman, born in Paris, France. He became the first professor of organic chemistry at the Collège de France (1865), and was foreign minister (1895–6). He helped to found the study of thermochemistry, introducing a standard method for determining the latent heat of steam. His syntheses of many fundamental organic compounds helped to destroy the classical division between organic and inorganic compounds. |
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