Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine Lavoisier

August 23 1734 May 8Antoine LavoisierBorn August 23 1734Inherited large family fortune after the death of his mother at age fiveWent 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-owners daughterFirst paper published on 1764Executed using the guillotine during the height of the French Revolution, where fellow college Joseph Priestly fled Europe to Pennsylvania

Life

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

In 1774 he repeated Robert Boyles tin calx experiment He furthered Aristotles theory of the four elements by saying that their werent just four elements that their were hundreds of different elements

Experiments

Helped construct metric systemHelped with Law of Conservation of MassStudies helped construct beginning of the Periodic table for Dmitri Mendeleeb Named Oxygen 1774Named Hydrogen in 1783

Major Scientific contributions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Lavoisier#Contributions_to_chemistryhttp://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Lavoisier.htmlhttp://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Antoine_Lavoisierhttp://mattson.creighton.edu/History_Gas_Chemistry/Lavoisier.html

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