Your sympathy makes the lamp which is on the point of being… - Marcellin Berthelot

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Your sympathy makes the lamp which is on the point of being extinguished in the everlasting night shine with a final brilliancy. The respect which humanity shows to aged persons is the expression of the solidarity which unites the present generations to those which have gone before and to those which will follow.

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

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