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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794)

Author of Elements of Chemistry

Includes the names: A L Lavoisier, Antoine Lavoisier, Antoine L Lavoisier, DE LAVOISIER ANTOINE L, Anoine Laurent Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Antione Laurent Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (Elements of Chemistry)

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1743-08-26
Date of death
1794-05-08
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Unknown grave, Paris, France
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male
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France
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Paris, France
Orleans, France
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College Mazarin, University of Paris
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chemist
tax collector
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French Academy of Sciences
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Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier was the founder of the modern science of chemistry. As a member of the ancien regime, he was killed during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution. The lovely 1788 painting "Portrait of Monsieur Lavoisier and His Wife" (Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, also a pioneering chemist) by David is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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