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2 unusual facts about Marcellin Berthelot


André Berthelot

André Berthelot (1862–1938) was the son of the chemist and politician Marcellin Berthelot and a député of the Seine.

Liber Ignium

One of the most influential studies of the Liber Ignium was conducted by Marcellin Berthelot; it is still cited in 20th century works on the topic.


Arthur Giry

He prepared a new edition of the monk Theophilus' celebrated treatise, Diversarum artium schedula, and for several years devoted his Saturday mornings to laboratory research with the chemist Aimé Girard at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, the results of which were utilized by Marcellin Berthelot in the first volume (1894) of his Chimie au moyen âge.

Echoes of Life

The book moves on to Marcellin Berthelot who in 1864 claimed to have found "petroleum-like hydrocarbons" in a meteorite found near Orgueil.


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