Henry Louis Le Chatelier

Henry Louis Le Chatelier
Born(1850-10-08)8 October 1850
Paris, France
Died17 September 1936(1936-09-17) (aged 85)
Miribel-les-Échelles, Isère
Known forLe Chatelier's principle
Thermal flame theory
Detonation
FatherLouis Le Chatelier
RelativesAlfred Le Chatelier, brother
AwardsForMemRS (1913)
Davy Medal (1916)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique
Sorbonne

Henry Louis Le Chatelier[1] (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi lwi lə ʃɑtəlje]; 8 October 1850 – 17 September 1936) was a French chemist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He devised Le Chatelier's principle, used by chemists and chemical engineers to predict the effect a changing condition has on a system in chemical equilibrium.

  1. ^ Desch, C. H. (1938). "Henry Louis Le Chatelier. 1850–1936". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2 (6): 250–259. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1938.0005. See signature on second page.