Louis Le Chatelier (20 February 1815 – 10 November 1873) was a French chemist and industrialist who developed a method for producing aluminium from

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in 1855. His son was chemist

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. His name is inscribed on the Eiffel tower.Henri Louis LE CHATELIER (1815–1873)
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Alfred Le Chatelier Frédéric Alfred Le Chatelier (23 November 1855 – 9 August 1929) was a French soldier, ceramicist and Islamologist. He spent most of his military career in the French African colonies. After leaving the army he was involved in a project to bu ...

(1855–1929), who joined the army. Alfred later became a ceramicist and then held the chair of Muslim sociology in the

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for many years.

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* École Polytechnique alumni Mines ParisTech alumni Corps des mines 19th-century French chemists 1815 births 1873 deaths Scientists from Paris {{france-chemist-stub