context: In 1769, Pouletier de la Sal received from the gallstones a dense white substance ("fat"), which had the properties of fats. In its pure form, cholesterol was isolated by a chemist, a member of the national Convention and the Minister of Education Antoine Fourcroix in 1789. In 1815, Michel Chevreul, who also isolated this compound, called it cholesterol ("chole" - bile, "stereo" - solid). In 1859, Marseille Berthelot proved that cholesterol belongs to the class of alcohols, after which the French renamed cholesterol to “cholesterol”. In a number of languages ​​(Russian [3] [4], German, Hungarian and others), the old name - cholesterol - has been preserved.
question: Who discovered cholesterol?
answers.text: Antoine Fourcroix