Name Jean Michel | Role Chemist | |
Died January 24, 1780, Paris, France | ||
Jean-Baptiste-Michel Bucquet ([bykɛ]; 18 February 1746 – 24 January 1780) was a French chemist, member of the French Royal Academy of Sciences, physician and royal censor.
Bucquet was born in Paris, in 1746. He was first sent to study law but he then turned to science and attended medical classes at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris. He graduated in 1770 and thus became Docteur-Régent. He then started teaching a public course in chemistry in his own laboratory prior to becoming professor of chemistry and natural history in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Paris in 1776. In 1777, he collaborated with Lavoisier and performed many fundamental experiments which led to Bucquet's acceptation in the French Royal Academy of Sciences as a chemist. He continued giving public courses until 1779. He was known to be a very good teacher and many attended his courses.
His most famous pupil was Antoine-François Fourcroy who later carried on Bucquet's work on natural history.