Claude Louis Berthollet (born
December 9,
1748 , in
Talloires[?], near
Annecy[?],
France, died
November 6,
1822 in
Arcueil[?]) was a French
chemist who along with
Antoine Lavoisier and others, devised a chemical nomenclature, or a system of names, which serves as the basis of the modern system of naming chemical compounds.