Louis Lémery
Louis Lémery (25 January 1677, Paris, France – 9 June 1743, Paris) was a French botanist and chemist.[1]
The son of scientist Nicolas Lemery, Louis was appointed physician at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris in 1710, and became chemistry chair at the Jardin du Roi in 1730, succeeding Étienne François Geoffroy.[1] He was the author of a Traité des aliments (1702), and of a Dissertation sur la nature des os (1704), as well as of a number of papers on chemical topics.[1] He published papers on chemical analysis, monstrous births (birth defects) and the anatomy of fetuses.[1]
In 1706, he married Catherine Chapot, with whom he had one daughter.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e Hannaway, Owen (1973). "Lemery, Louis". In Gillispie, Charles Coulston (ed.). Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 8. Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 171–172. SBN 684-10119-X.