Talk:Henry Louis Le Chatelier

Vandalism

For reasons that escape me, this article has been subject to some pretty heavy vandalism. I would recommend that we return to the version that was up March 5th. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.253.100.156 (talk) 00:12, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Lechatelierite

Neither this page nor the one on lechatelierite mention their connection. At the very least lechatelierite should mention its namesake, and lechatelierite should probably be put into a "See Also" section on this page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.245.223.207 (talk) 03:37, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Recent Expansion

• I know it repeats his date of birth twice, but I see no problem or

error in this.

• has being tranlsated from:

fr:Henri Le Chatelier

• please proof read it, I am sure I have some mistakes somewhere.

But please don't delete information, rather; expand it if you can. Mexaguil 05:24, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

• I just deleted the following text:

"Following this he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame for his efforts to bring the game to France. Though not well known for his baseball abilities he was a fine player in his day, playing for 8 seasons in the French Baseball League, collecting over 1000 hits in this period."

I mean it just doesn't sound plausible! And there is no reference!

Wiki Article says born near French/Italian border. All other sources I've read says born in Paris, France. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.176.172.246 (talk) 21:24, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Article title

Should be Le (not le) Chatelier. --Kmorrow 16:55, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

And he is Henry not Henri.. --Kmorrow 17:02, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Page copyedited. Made one substantive change, identifying LC as influential figure of late 19th/early 20th century rather than 19th only, since article refers to substantive work and publications after 1900. Monicasdude 16:01, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It could be Henri (a google search gives almost as much Henri as Henry but French streets are called "Henri Le Chatelier" and not "Henry Le Chatelier" --Poppypetty 00:22PT, 04 August 2005

Le Chatelier's name

Should it be Le Châtelier? All the chemistry books have it with the diacritical mark above the a, but I would assume the French wikipage would be correct, so I'm confused.Olin 14:18, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

I was thinking the same thing. The article on his theory, Le Châtelier's Principle is also inconsistent. Can anyone clear this issue up? Zchenyu 23:20, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

He signs his name as "Henry Le Chatelier". See http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royobits/2/6/250.full.pdf. The Royal Society, which I think is very likely to be correct on this, does not use the circumflex (see http://dx.doi.org/10.1098%2Frsbm.1938.0005). Annales des Mines, another reputable source, didn't use circumflex for neither him nor his father, Henry Louis Le Chatelier (http://www.annales.org/archives/x/chatelier.html) (http://www.annales.org/archives/x/lc.html). Interestingly, on the discussion page of the French version of this entry (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion:Henry_Le_Chatelier), an anonymous user wrote "I am the great-great-grandson of Henry Le Chatelier and we have never, in the family, ever written our last name with an accent [sic]." ("Je suis l'arrière-arrière petit fils de Henry Le Chatelier et nous n'avons, dans la famille, jamais écrit notre nom de famille avec un accent.") Since this is unattributed this is does not seem to be as valid as other sources (the IP address that made this change, 198.103.184.76, traces to Ottawa, ON, Canada), however I think from the previous several sources we can already conclude the circumflex shouldn't've been there in the first place. I suggest this page be moved. Ffffafsd 04:50, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

I think Henri is the French name (and since he's French, it's appropriate he be called Henri). Henry is the anglicized version.Nonagonal Spider 06:02, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

There was a discussion on french wiki about this problem. It had been conclued that the good way to write the name was "Henry Le Chatelier". I made the corrections. Rhadamante 23:41, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Very strangely it is Henry which is effectively not the usual way of writing this name in French. His father was name (Henri) Louis Le Chatelier who is in fact known as fr:Louis Le Chatelier.Romary 12:45, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree that it looks weird and feels strongly like it should be "Henri", but the fact is that he signed his own name as "Henry". See http://dx.doi.org/10.1098%2Frsbm.1938.0005, second page. (Note: You may possibly have to download the pdf to be able to read it my browser won't load it for some reason, even though it does fine with other pdfs. But the file does clearly show his signature as "Henry".) I've made the appropriate changes to the article for now, but I'm open to further discussion if anyone feels it's warranted. -- edi(talk) 19:56, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 03:40, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Actually his father was Louis Le Chatelier - he was called Henri Loius Le Chatelier. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.141.58.102 (talk) 22:40, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Mother's nationality?

Is there a source that states his mother's nationality was italian? The version that introduced this claim also seems to have placed Le Chatelier's birthplace at the French-Italian border. However, the source material at the bottom has his place of birth as Paris. This is rather suspicious, and this article has been vandalized extensively. For example: He attended the "Ecole des Vagines" ? I guess school boys are the same the world over :^). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.152.255.40 (talk) 06:35, 11 April 2010 (UTC)