Claude François Geoffroy
French chemist
Years: 1729 - 1753
Claude François Geoffroy (1729–1753) is a French chemist.
He discovers the chemical element bismuth in 1753.
Before this time, bismuth-containing minerals were frequently identified as either lead or tin ores.
He is known as Claude Geoffroy the Younger to distinguish him from his father Claude Joseph Geoffroy (1685–1752), also a French chemist and apothecary, member of the académie des sciences.
