Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (January 4, 1737 - January 2, 1816) was a French chemist and politician. He collaborated on the Encyclopédie Méthodique and developed the first system of chemical nomenclature. He was a member of the right wing, but voted i
Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (January 4, 1737 - January 2, 1816) was a French chemist and politician. He collaborated on the Encyclopédie Méthodique and developed the first system of chemical nomenclature. He was a member of the right wing, but voted in favor of the execution of King Louis XVI. he briefly served on the Committee of Public Safety, but resigned in order to devote his time to the manufacture of firearms, and formation of a corps of balloonists for the French Revolutionary Army. He was among the founders of the École Polytechnique and was a professor of mineralogy as well as its director in 1797. He was made a baron of the First French Empire in 1811. He died in 1816 two days shy of his 79th birthday.
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