plaque 70 x 57 mm - BRONZE by J.C. CHAPLAIN, tribute to MAR - Lot 415

plaque 70 x 57 mm - BRONZE by J.C. CHAPLAIN, tribute to MARCELIN BERTHELOT. LA SYNTHESE CHIMIQUE, LA SCIENCE GUIDE L'HUMANITE, his bust in high relief, profile to left. - Reverse: M. Berthelot seated in his laboratory in front of his instruments, with female allegories of the Republic and Science at his side, legend at bottom: 1851 POUR LA PATRIE ET LA VERITE 1901 - 142 grammes, horn hallmark - SUP Marcelin Berthelot (1827-1907): Chemist, physiochemist, biologist, epistemologist, Minister of Public Instruction, French Academician. Studied at the Faculty of Science and Faculty of Pharmacy; professor at the Ecole Supérieure de Pharmacie. Historian of Chemistry, supervised the manufacture of cannons and explosives during the Paris Commune in 1870 - 1,200 patents registered between 1850 and 1907, notably in the field of PHARMACOLOGY - Donated his patents to the French state and to the world, so that they could serve the greatest number of people. His ashes were transferred to the Panthéon; his wife, his closest collaborator, rests with him: she was thus the 1st woman to enter the Panthéon.