Word: berthelot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for choosing last week to dedicate the international chemistry cornerstone was that the week marked the hundredth anniversary of Marcellin Pierre Eugène Berthelot's birth...
...Berthelot proved the science of organic chemistry. Before him chemists thought that they could make compounds only of inorganic elements, that organic growths depended upon a "vital principle." Berthelot reasoned that all chemical phenomena followed physical laws. In his laboratory he treated glycerin with certain acids and got fats, oils and butters. He combined hydrogen and carbon by means of the voltaic arc and got acetylene. "Berthelot condenses it [acetylene] under the action of heat and behold, we have benzine," writes Premier Poincaré in the current Chimie et Industrie, French periodical. "He adds hydrogen and behold, there appears ethylene...
...that it contribute funds toward an international house of chemistry, proposed as a centenary memorial to Marcellin Pierre Eugene Berthelot, French chemist and politician, successor to Louis Pasteur as per- petual secretary of the Academy of Sciences. Reason: The request had come, through governmental channels; the American Chemical Society believed that any centralization of world science should be initiated by scientific societies...
...Berthelot. Early chapters in the synthesis of Humpty-Dumpty were rehearsed by Prof. Paul Sabatier, faculty dean of Toulouse University, who described the personality and performances of Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907) under whom he had worked at the College de France. Berthelot it was who first prepared "organic" compounds (containing the inevitable constituent of living matter, carbon) from their constituent elements: hydrogen, oxygen, carbon. It seemed then as if Chemist Berthelot had made life from dead matter though nowadays the things he made, benzene, alcohol, etc., are regarded more calmly. (Next year France will observe the centennial of Berthelot...
...Palace to the Foreign Office is but a few minutes' drive along the Mall, through the Admiralty Arch and down Whitehall. Thither went M. Briand; there was he joined by le comte de Fleurian, French Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, by M. Philippe Berthelot of the Quai d'Orsay, and by M. Fromageot, French international jurist. Then began conversations between the French Foreign Minister and the British Foreign Secretary to decide upon an answer to Germany's recent note relative to the proposed Rhine Treaty which is to guarantee the status...