Louis Le Chatelier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French chemist
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Louis Le Chatelier
- Louis Le Chatelier (20 February 1815 – 10 November 1873) was a French chemist and industrialist who developed a method for producing aluminium from bauxite in 1855.
- His son was the well known chemist Henri Louis Le Chatelier.
- His name is inscribed on the Eiffel tower.Le Chatelier and his wife Louise Madeleine Élisabeth Durand (1827–1902) had seven children. One was Alfred Le Chatelier (1855–1929), who joined the army. Alfred later became a ceramicist and then held the chair of Muslim sociology in the Collège de France for many years.
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