Technically, it was Antoine Lavoisier that proved we have an internal combustion engine, but let’s give the guinea pig credit. It nearly froze in Lavoisier’s special calorimeter to prove something new ...

IT is a matter of very little importance whether Lavoisier actually obtained oxygen gas a few weeks or days before Priestley. The bare bald discovery of the gas is a very minor matter when placed in ...

The name of Isaac Newton comes to mind when one talks about physics. And it’s Charles Darwin we think of when biology is referred to. But what name comes to mind when we think of chemistry? Probably ...

TWENTY-FIVE years ago the author of this book placed chemical teachers and students under a lasting debt by the publication of an essay on “Avogadro and Dalton”—a very careful historical and critical ...

A version of this article first appeared on NOVA's Web site Everest. Before the age of science, it was clear to most observers that air was a "vital spirit," but beyond that, little was known about ...

Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) is often called the father of modern chemistry. Lavoisier lived during the French Revolution, and he brought about a scientific revolution in chemistry. He is possibly ...

Last broadcast over 25 years ago, 4 Extra dips into the archive for this dramatised account of the fate of French chemist, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. It was Lavoisier who discovered the secret of ...

"It turns out that when physical activity increases, the body compensates by becoming more biochemically efficient, meaning that it reduces the calories needed to fuel the functioning of the heart, ...

Antoine Lavoisier is deservedly considered one of the great chemists in history. We might not know of his experiments if it weren’t for his wife. She became a remarkable, if unconventional, chemist ...

Philip Ball tells the story of Madame Lavoisier, translator of oxygen. At a time when science was almost a closed book to women, her skills facilitated a revolution in chemistry. Show more Philip Ball ...