History
Cato Maximilian Guldberg and Peter Waage, building on Claude Louis Berthollet’s ideas about reversible chemical reactions, proposed the Law of Mass Action in 1864. These papers, in Norwegian, went largely unnoticed, as did the later publication (in French) of 1867 which contained a modified law and the experimental data on which that law was based.
In 1877 van 't Hoff independently came to similar conclusions, but was unaware of the earlier work, which prompted Guldberg and Waage to give a fuller and further developed account of their work, in German, in 1879. Van 't Hoff then accepted their priority.
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