Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, the French scientist, is known as the Father of Chemistry (Specifically, the Father of Modern ...

LAVOISIER IN THE YEAR ONE: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution, by Madison Smartt Bell, Norton/Atlas, 2005, 214 pages, $22.95 (ISBN 0-393-05155-2) Antoine Lavoisier concurred with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, was tried ...

Antoine Lavoisier didn’t just study chemistry—he transformed it Known as the Father of Modern Chemistry, he shattered old myths, discovered the role of oxygen in burning, and laid the foundation for ...

Silas Deane, left, worked with Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, center, to secure gunpowder from Antoine Lavoisier, right. Alamy (3) Shortly after taking command of the Continental Army in July ...

The French 18th-century chemist Antoine Lavoisier is a complicated historical figure. Scientifically, of course, he is an undisputed giant, helping usher in the chemical revolution as the field ...

Marie Paulze was only 13 when she married the wealthy French lawyer Antoine Lavoisier, and she immediately started learning English so that she could act as the scientific go-between for his true ...