Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
1743-1794
French Chemist and Economist
Antoine Lavoisier is regarded as the founder of modern chemistry. Although he made few discoveries of new substances or processes, his ...
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Lavoisier, Antoine(1743–1794)
Antoine Lavoisier played the central role in what has come to be known as the chemical revolution. He is credited with establishing that oxygen is an element and w...
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The French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) was the founder of the modern science of chemistry and the author of the oxygen theory of combustion.Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was born in Pari...
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Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, was the first scientist to explain how things burn. He developed the first rational system for naming chemical compounds, which is still in u...
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Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, was the first scientist to explain how things burn. He developed the first rational system for naming chemical compounds, which is still in u...
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Childhood and Education
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was born on August 26, 1743. His father was a lawyer and his mother was the daughter of the wealthy Punctis family in France. He was born into a pros...
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