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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Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier 3
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instanceOf Enlightenment scientist
French person
chemist
human
causeOfDeath execution
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of France
dateOfBirth 1743-08-26
dateOfDeath 1794-05-08
educatedAt Collège des Quatre-Nations
Panthéon-Sorbonne University
surface form: University of Paris
employer Ferme générale
familyName Antoine Lavoisier self-linksurface differs
surface form: Lavoisier
fieldOfWork agronomy
chemical thermodynamics
chemistry
stoichiometry
givenName Antoine
honorificTitle father of modern chemistry
knownFor clarifying the concept of chemical element
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
languageOfWorkOrName French
mannerOfDeath execution by guillotine
memberOf Académie des Sciences
surface form: Académie des sciences

American Philosophical Society
Académie des Sciences
surface form: French Academy of Sciences

Royal Society
notableIdea combustion as reaction with oxygen
matter is neither created nor destroyed in chemical reactions
use of balance in chemistry
notableWork Traité élémentaire de chimie
occupation chemist
economist
public official
tax farmer
participantIn French Revolution
placeOfBirth Kingdom of France
Paris
placeOfDeath French First Republic
Paris
publicationDate 1789
religion Roman Catholicism
residence Paris
sexOrGender male
spouse Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze
surface form: Marie-Anne Paulze

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Académie des Sciences hasNotableMember Antoine Lavoisier
Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife depicts Antoine Lavoisier
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Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife commissionedBy Antoine Lavoisier
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this entity surface form: Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
Enlightenment science hasKeyFigure Antoine Lavoisier
Robert Boyle influenced Antoine Lavoisier
Lavoisier Medal namedAfter Antoine Lavoisier
Joseph Priestley influenced Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier familyName Antoine Lavoisier self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Lavoisier
Joseph Black influenced Antoine Lavoisier
Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze spouse Antoine Lavoisier
Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze workedWith Antoine Lavoisier
Éleuthère Irénée du Pont trainedBy Antoine Lavoisier
Errancis Cemetery, Paris notableBurials Antoine Lavoisier
subject surface form: Errancis Cemetery
Revolutionary Tribunal notableVictim Antoine Lavoisier
Claude-Louis Berthollet collaboratedWith Antoine Lavoisier
Claude-Louis Berthollet influencedBy Antoine Lavoisier
Traité élémentaire de chimie author Antoine Lavoisier
Ferme générale notableMember Antoine Lavoisier