If each one of us adds something to the common weal in the … - Marcellin Berthelot

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If each one of us adds something to the common weal in the domain of science, or art, or morality, the reason is because long series of generations have lived, worked, thought, and suffered before us. The science which you honour to-day has been created by the patient labours of our predecessors.

Marcellin Berthelot

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Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot FRS FRSE (25 October 1827 – 18 March 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 counterevidence to the theory of Jöns Jakob Berzelius that organic compounds required organisms in their synthesis.

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Alternative Names: Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot • Pierre Eugene Marcellin Berthelot • Pierre Eugène Berthelot • M. Berthelot

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