births
June 15, 1755
Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist and entomologist (died 1809)
Antoine-François de Fourcroy
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.