Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician (died 1907)

Marcellin Berthelot

French chemist and politician (1827–1907)

Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot 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…