Jean Descemet


Jean Descemet is a French physician and botanist who first described the Descemet's membrane. He studied medicine in Paris and published a Catalogue des plantes du jardin de MM. les apothicaires de Paris, suivant leurs genres et les caractères des fleurs, conformément à la méthode de M. Tournefort. He is also known for his book Observations sur la choroide, that covers Choroid subject and was published in 1768 by De l'Imprimerie Royale.