Homer Eugene Le Grand Jr. (September 3, 1944, Charlotte, North Carolina – January 16, 2017, Melbourne, Australia) was an American-Australian historian of science.
[2] After graduating from Shelby High School, Homer E. Le Grand Jr. matriculated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[3] In June 1966 in Cleveland County, North Carolina, he married Brenda Ann Lefler (born 1943).
[5] He became a member of the history department of Virginia Tech and for the academic year 1975–1976 went on sabbatical with his wife and their three small children to the University of Melbourne.
[8] In his research on the history of chemistry, Le Grand argued that Humphry Davy's discoveries enabled 19th-century chemists to fully realize the value of Lavoisier's operational definition of chemical elements as those irreducible elements which validate conservation of mass before and after a chemical transformation.