Louis Lémery

Louis Lémery was a French botanist and chemist.
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 [des Plantes|Jardin du Roi] in 1730, succeeding Étienne [François Geoffroy]. He was the author of a Traité des aliments, and of a Dissertation sur la nature des os, as well as of a number of papers on chemical topics. He published papers on chemical analysis, monstrous births and the anatomy of fetuses.
In 1706, he married Catherine Chapot, with whom he had one daughter.