Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze

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Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze was an 18th-century French chemist and illustrator who significantly contributed to her husband Antoine Lavoisier’s pioneering work in modern chemistry through translation, experimentation, and scientific drawings.

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instanceOf French person
chemist
human
scientific illustrator
translator
afterSpouseDeath worked to preserve and publish Lavoisier’s legacy
alsoKnownAs Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze
surface form: Marie-Anne Lavoisier
arrestContext French Revolution
burialPlace Paris
surface form: Paris, France
contributedTo Traité élémentaire de chimie
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1758-01-20
dateOfDeath 1836-02-10
era 18th century
French Enlightenment
father Jacques Paulze
fieldOfWork chemistry
scientific illustration
translation of scientific texts
gender female
hasOccupation chemist
illustrator
translator
influenced reception of Lavoisier’s chemistry in France
visual standards for chemical illustration
languageOfWorkOrName English
French
marriageStart 1771-12-16
name Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze self-link
nativeLanguage French
notableFor contributions to the development of modern chemistry
documenting chemical apparatus and experiments through drawings
experimental work in Lavoisier’s laboratory
helping to refute the phlogiston theory through translations and commentary
notableWork French translation of Richard Kirwan’s Essay on Phlogiston
editing and preparing publication of Antoine Lavoisier’s papers
illustrations for Antoine Lavoisier’s Traité élémentaire de chimie
participatedIn development of the oxygen theory of combustion
placeOfBirth Montbrison, Loire, France
placeOfDeath Paris
surface form: Paris, France
roleInWork designer of plates and diagrams of chemical apparatus
editor of experimental reports
translator of foreign chemical texts for Lavoisier
socialStatus member of French upper bourgeoisie
spouse Antoine Lavoisier
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
spouseExecution Antoine Lavoisier executed by guillotine in 1794
workedAt Lavoisier’s laboratory at the Paris Arsenal
workedWith Antoine Lavoisier

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Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife depicts Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze
Antoine Lavoisier spouse Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze
this entity surface form: Marie-Anne Paulze
Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze name Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze self-link
Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze alsoKnownAs Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze
this entity surface form: Marie-Anne Lavoisier