# Claude Louis Berthollet

> He proved that chemical reactions can run backward — the insight that opened equilibrium chemistry — and then turned around and showed the world how to bleach fabric with chlorine gas.

*French chemist (1748-1822)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1748-12-09
- **Died:** 1822-11-06
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Claude Louis Berthollet was born in Savoy on 9 December 1748 and trained as a chemist in an era when the field was still shaking off alchemy's shadow. His theoretical work on reverse reactions laid groundwork for understanding chemical equilibria, the push-and-pull that governs how far a reaction will go. He also helped rebuild chemical nomenclature into something rational. But his most immediate mark was practical: he demonstrated that chlorine gas could bleach, then developed sodium hypochlorite as a solution that could do the job without the fumes. By 1804 he'd risen to vice president of the French Senate. He died on 6 November 1822.

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