Claude Louis Berthollet
French chemist
Died when: 73 years 332 days (886 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Claude Louis Berthollet (French pronunciation: ?[klod lwi b??t?l?], 9 December 1748 – 6 November 1822) was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804.
He is known for his scientific contributions to theory of chemical equilibria via the mechanism of reverse chemical reactions, and for his contribution to modern chemical nomenclature.
On a practical basis, Berthollet was the first to demonstrate the bleaching action of chlorine gas, and was first to develop a solution of sodium hypochlorite as a modern bleaching agent.
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