French scientist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier was guillotined in Paris at the age of 50 on 8 May, 1794. Known as the father of modern chemistry, Lavoisier’s notable contributions include determining the ...

Antoine Lavoisier (1743-94) was a -- possibly even the -- founding father of the chemical revolution: a Washington, a Jefferson or a Franklin. (Lavoisier in fact knew Benjamin Franklin, whose portrait ...

French aristocrat and chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was an incredibly important figure in the history of chemistry, whose findings were equivalent in stature to the impact of Isaac Newton‘s ...

Antoine Lavoisier gave oxygen its name, from the Greek words for “acid-former.” But that wasn’t his only contribution to scientific understanding of what it does. Born August 26, 1743, Lavoisier “is ...