Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist and entomologist (born 1755)

Antoine-François de Fourcroy

French chemist (1755–1809)

Antoine François Fourcroy was a French chemist and a contemporary of Antoine Lavoisier. Fourcroy collaborated with Lavoisier, Guyton de Morveau, and Claude Berthollet on the Méthode de nomenclature chimique, a work that helped standardize chemical nomenclature.