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Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26 August – 8 May ) was a Frenchnobleman, chemist and biologist. He is often called the "Father of Modern Chemistry".[1] His work is an important part of the histories of chemistry and biology.[2] It also contributed to the beginnings of atomic theory.
He was the first scientist to recognise and name the elementshydrogen and oxygen.
Antoine laurent de lavoisier biography definition
He was executed, as were hundreds of other nobles, during the French Revolution.
Early life
[change | change source]Antoine de Lavoisier began studying at the Collège Mazarin in Paris in , when he was 11 years old.
Collège Mazarin was one of the best secondary schools in France then. He studied to be a lawyer like his father and his grandfather. He got his degree in and practised law at the parliament; however, he really preferred scientificresearch to law, so he also studied chemistry, botany, astronomy, and mathematics.
He got his law degree in , but never practised as a