Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Auguste Laurent (November 14, 1807 - April 23, 1853) was a French chemist who discovered anthracene, discovered phthalic acid, and identified carbolic acid. He devised a systematic nomenclature for organic chemistry based on structural grouping of atoms within molecules to determine how the molecules combine in organic reactions. He studied under Jean-Baptiste Dumas and worked with Charles Gerhardt. External link http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Laurent.html This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it.\n This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.