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THE death of Henry Louis Le Chatelier, which occurred at Miribel-les-lSchelles on September 17, removes one of the great pioneers in the physical chemistry of the last quarter of the nineteenth century; he was born in Paris on October 8, 1850. His father, Louis Le Chatelier, who died in 1873, was a man of high technical abilities and scientific talents; in 1842, when France possessed only six hundred kilometres of railroads, he was put in charge of railway development and became largely responsible for the construction of the present French railway network. Louis also played a great part in the perfection of the locomotive, in the improvement of coal mining and utilization, in the manufacture of open hearth steel and of aluminium and in the organization of the Bordeaux pine forests.
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POPE, W. Prof. H. L. Le Chatelier, For. Mem. R.S.. Nature 138, 711–712 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138711a0
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