Deseret Evening News | 1901-06-29 | Page 21 | M. Berthelot, the Great Synthetic Chemist

K M 11 BERTHELOT THE GREAT SYNTHETIC CHEMIST 1 1 I 1 I 1 Y A I I Ip p 1 1 i II e t LI 5 t J lh f i t s rj b GI t ri If M 11 Pierre Eugene Berthelot In honoring whom wham with titles France Trance has hns honored herself Is une me of or the greatest hl IIII la of If th the age e The portrait shows hows him in hi Ile hili laboratory tor at the College Colle of or France lerance Ira n 8 well depicts the noble nobl h head nd and youthful youth CuI bearing of oC this thie scientist who ho hoIs Is now In hit hili seventy fourth year jear ear and can oan look beck b l ek upon a lifetime of labor tabor which hat has been though Indirectly devoted to ameliorating th the condition of ot his hi fellow men Though M 1 Berthelot has 8 wasted wB some years In politics baying held sever ever several everal vel al nl high under the French F government such auch ai al a minister of or public In Instruction instruction and minister of or foreign affair yet YH he h has lias I now returned to his hla first Ant love chemistry to which he h Intends Intend to o devote Iet th Ih the remainder of oC his hla lift life It ItIs Itis Is II In or the production of ot substances from their known constituent elements that h he has ham excelled isle his ht discoveries d rI in III that thai direction bar hn barIng Ing lug placed laCed him In II the front rank