Antoine François de Fourcroy

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Antoine François de Fourcroy was an influential 18th-century French chemist and educator who helped develop and popularize the new chemical nomenclature and modern chemical theory during the French Enlightenment.

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instanceOf French chemist
chemist
educator
human
nobleman
politician
academicDegree doctor of medicine
causeOfDeath apoplexy
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1755-06-15
dateOfDeath 1809-12-16
educatedAt Collège d’Harcourt
Faculty of Medicine of Paris
employer Jardin du Roi
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle
École Polytechnique
École de Médecine de Paris
era 18th century
French Enlightenment
ethnicGroup French
familyName de Fourcroy
fieldOfWork chemical education
chemistry
medicine
public education policy
givenName Antoine
hasPart Fourcroyite (mineral named in his honor)
influenced French chemical education
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Louis Jacques Thénard
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin
influencedBy Antoine Lavoisier
Étienne François Geoffroy
knownFor development of modern chemical nomenclature
popularization of Lavoisier’s antiphlogistic theory
reforms in French scientific and medical education
role in the French Revolution’s educational policies
systematization of chemical knowledge
languageOfWorkOrName French
memberOf Académie des sciences
Institut de France
Royal Society of London
linked to: Royal Society

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Société royale de médecine
movement French Enlightenment
nativeLanguage French
nobleTitle comte de Fourcroy
notableStudent Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Louis Jacques Thénard
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin
notableWork Leçons élémentaires d’histoire naturelle et de chimie
Méthode de nomenclature chimique
Philosophie chimique
Système des connaissances chimiques et de leurs applications aux phénomènes de la nature et de l’art
Tableau synoptique de chimie
Éléments d’histoire naturelle et de chimie
occupation chemist
government official
physician
politician
professor
participatedIn French Revolution
placeOfBirth Kingdom of France
Paris
placeOfDeath First French Empire
Paris
positionHeld councillor of state
director-general of public instruction
member of the Council of Five Hundred
professor at the École Polytechnique
professor of chemistry at the Jardin du Roi
professor of chemistry at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle
sexOrGender male
workLocation Paris

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Louis Nicolas Vauquelin studiedUnder Antoine François Fourcroy
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