Marcellin Berthelot
(1827-1907)
French chemist
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Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot FRS FRSE (1827–1907) was a French chemist and 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 Jakob Berzelius that organic compounds required organisms in their synthesis. Berthelot was convinced that chemical synthesis would revolutionize the food industry by the year 2000, and that synthesized foods would replace farms and pastures. "Why not", he asked, "if it proved cheaper and better to make the same materials than to grow them?"
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25 October 1827 Paris
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18 March 1907 (aged 79) Paris, France
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| Zodiac | Scorpio |
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