Berthollet, Claude-Louis
French chemist
Claude-Louis Berthollet, (born Dec. 9, 1748, Talloires, Savoy, France—died Nov. 6, 1822, Arcueil), central French figure in the emergence of chemistry as a modern discipline in the late 18th century. He combined acute experimental skills with fundamental theoretical proposals about the nature of chemical reactions, eventually leading to the law of mass action.
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