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Born: 26 August 1743 · Died: 8 May 1794 · Age at death: 50
Antoine Lavoisier died aged 50. He was born on 26 August 1743 and died on 8 May 1794.
French chemist who named oxygen and hydrogen, proved the conservation of mass and was guillotined during the Revolution
Did you know?He helped develop the metric system and identified oxygen as an element rather than just a gas.
Antoine Lavoisier is the father of modern chemistry. A wealthy Parisian, he funded his research by working as a tax collector. He showed that in chemical reactions, matter is neither created nor destroyed. He named oxygen and hydrogen and explained combustion. He helped create a modern system for naming chemicals. He also worked on the metric system. During the Revolution he was guillotined for his tax work.
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( lə-VWAH-zee-ay; French:; 26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794), also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
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French chemist, 1743–1794
Antoine Lavoisier was born in Paris on 26 August 1743.
He worked as a tax farmer to fund his research.
He named oxygen and hydrogen.
He was guillotined on 8 May 1794.
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Did you know?His wife Marie-Anne was his key collaborator and illustrated his experiments.
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