Jean-Nicolas Corvisart-Desmarets (15 February 1755 – 18 September 1821) was a French physician.
Born in the French village of Dricourt (now in Ardennes) in 1755, Corvisart translated Leopold von Auenbrugg's Inventum Novum from Latin into French.
Corvisart was especially fond of Auenbrugg's use of chest percussion as a diagnostic tool, and began to perfect the technique.
He resurrected percussion during the French Revolution after it had fallen out of fashion.