Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Claude Louis Berthollet (born December 9, 1748 , in Talloires, near Annecy, France, died November 6, 1822 in Arcueil) was a French chemist who along with Antoine Lavoisier and others, devised a chemical nomenclature, or a system of names, which serves as the basis of the modern system of naming chemical compounds. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.