Antoine Lavoisier
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Antoine Lavoisier was an 18th-century French chemist widely regarded as the "father of modern chemistry" for his pioneering work on the law of conservation of mass and the nature of chemical reactions.
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Enlightenment scientist
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French person → chemist → human → |
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execution
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| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of France
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| dateOfBirth |
1743-08-26
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| dateOfDeath |
1794-05-08
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Collège des Quatre-Nations
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University of Paris → |
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Ferme générale
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Lavoisier
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| fieldOfWork |
agronomy
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chemical thermodynamics → chemistry → stoichiometry → |
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Antoine
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father of modern chemistry
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| knownFor |
clarifying the concept of chemical element
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identification of oxygen’s role in combustion → law of conservation of mass → modern system of chemical nomenclature → quantitative chemical experiments → refutation of phlogiston theory → work on composition of water → work on respiration and metabolism → |
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French
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execution by guillotine
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Académie des sciences
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American Philosophical Society → French Academy of Sciences → Royal Society → |
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combustion as reaction with oxygen
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matter is neither created nor destroyed in chemical reactions → use of balance in chemistry → |
| notableWork |
Traité élémentaire de chimie
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| occupation |
chemist
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economist → public official → tax farmer → |
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French Revolution
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| placeOfBirth |
Kingdom of France
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Paris → |
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French First Republic
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Paris → |
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1789
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| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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| residence |
Paris
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male
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| spouse |
Marie-Anne Paulze
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Referenced by (13)
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Joseph Black
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Joseph Priestley → Robert Boyle → |
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Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife
("Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier")
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Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife
("Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier")
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Antoine Lavoisier
("Lavoisier")
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Enlightenment science
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Académie des Sciences
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Lavoisier Medal
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Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife
("Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier")
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Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze
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Éleuthère Irénée du Pont
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Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze
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