ANTOINE LAVOISIER
August 23 1734 – May 8
LIFE
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Born August 23 1734
Inherited large family fortune after the death of his
mother at age five
Went to Mazarin College majored in Mathematics,
Botany , Astronomy, & Chemistry
In 1768 was elected into the French Academy of
Science
At the age of twenty eight married thirteen year old
co-owner’s daughter
First paper published on 1764
Executed using the guillotine during the height of
the French Revolution, where fellow college
Joseph Priestly fled Europe to Pennsylvania
IDEA OF THE ATOM
• Lavoisier did not have his own “model” of the
atom
• His studies and finding helped other chemists
such as Joseph Proust and John Dalton
EXPERIMENTS
• In 1774 he repeated Robert Boyle’s tin calx
experiment
• He furthered Aristotle’s theory of the four
elements by saying that their weren’t just four
elements that their were hundreds of different
elements
MAJOR SCIENTIFIC
CONTRIBUTIONS
• Helped construct metric system
• Helped with Law of Conservation of Mass
• Studies helped construct beginning of the
Periodic table for Dmitri Mendeleeb
• Named Oxygen 1774
• Named Hydrogen in 1783
BIBLIOGRAPHY
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Lavoisier#Contributions_to_chemistry
• http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Lavoisier.html
• http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Antoine_Lavoisier
• http://mattson.creighton.edu/History_Gas_Chemistry/Lavoisier.html
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