Jean-Claude Delamétherie (also
de La Métherie,
de Lamétherie, 4 September 1743 – 1 July 1817) was a French naturalist, mineralogist, geologist and paleontologist. He edited
Journal de physique, de chimie, d'histoire naturelle et des arts from 1785. He was elected member of
Leopoldina in 1792. He was a supporter of the
French Revolution, but opposed to the
Jacobins, and was forced to leave Paris during the
Reign of Terror, interrupting publication of the
Journal de physique until 1797. Numerous
minerals were first systematically described by Delamétherie. In 1795, Delamétherie first described the
Lherzolite (which he named after the site of its discovery,
Étang de Lers in the Pyrenees).