Nicolas LÌ©mery, French Chemist
Nicolas LÌ©mery (November 17, 1645 - June 19, 1715) was a French chemist. After learning pharmacy in his native town he became a pupil of Christophe Glaser in Paris, and then went to Montpellier, where he began to lecture on chemistry. He established a pharmacy in Paris, but following 1683, being a Calvinist, he was obliged to retire to England. In the following year he returned to France, and turning Catholic in 1686 was able to reopen his shop and resume his lectures. He did not concern himself with theoretical speculations, but holding chemistry to be a demonstrative science, confined himself to the straightforward exposition of facts and experiments. His lectures were hugely popular with fashionable society and pharmaceutical students, attracting many foreigners. His style was unusual at the time because he demonstrated many experiments himself. He shunned alchemists, and did not regard the quest of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life as the sole end of his science. He was one of the first to develop theories on acid-base chemistry. Of his Cours de chymie (1675) he lived to see 13 editions, and for a century it maintained its reputation as a standard work. He died in 1715 at the age of 69.
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