André Laugier

André Laugier (1 August 1770, in Lisieux – 19 April 1832, in Paris) was a French chemist, pharmacist and mineralogist.

He was a cousin to famed chemist Antoine François Fourcroy and the father of astronomer Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier (1812–1872).

He received his education in his hometown of Lisieux, and during the French Revolution, was tasked with collecting church bells in Bretagne in order for them to be melted down for the production of cannons.

[1] In 1794 he was employed as head of the gunpowder and saltpeter works at the Comite de salut public.

In 1829 he succeeded Louis Nicolas Vauquelin as director of the École de pharmacie in Paris.