CHEMIST

Antoine Lavoisier

1743 - 1794

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Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( lə-VWAH-zee-ay; French: [ɑ̃twan lɔʁɑ̃ də lavwazje]; 26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794), also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology. It is generally accepted that Lavoisier's great accomplishments in chemistry stem largely from his changing the science from a qualitative to a quantitative one. Lavoisier is noted for his discovery of the role oxygen plays in combustion, opposing the prior phlogiston theory of combustion. He named oxygen (1778), recognizing it as an element, and also recognized hydrogen as an element (1783). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine Lavoisier is the 4th most popular chemist, the 27th most popular biography from France (down from 26th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Chemist.

Antoine Lavoisier is most famous for his work in chemistry. He discovered that water is made up of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. He also discovered the law of conservation of mass, which states that matter cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Antoine Lavoisier ranks 4 out of 602. Before him are Louis Pasteur, Alfred Nobel, and Dmitri Mendeleev. After him are John Dalton, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Irène Joliot-Curie, Amedeo Avogadro, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Robert Boyle, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, and Emil Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Antoine Lavoisier ranks 2. Before him is Thomas Jefferson. After him are Madame du Barry, Jean-Paul Marat, Luigi Boccherini, Alessandro Cagliostro, Toussaint Louverture, Marquis de Condorcet, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Nicolai Abildgaard, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, and Martin Heinrich Klaproth. Among people deceased in 1794, Antoine Lavoisier ranks 2. Before him is Maximilien Robespierre. After him are Georges Danton, Marquis de Condorcet, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Cesare Beccaria, Edward Gibbon, Camille Desmoulins, Élisabeth of France, Georg Forster, Alexandre de Beauharnais, and André Chénier.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Lavoisier ranks 27 out of 6,770. Before him are Nostradamus (1503), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Henri Matisse (1869), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Caracalla (188), and Édith Piaf (1915). After him are Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122), Alain Delon (1935), Auguste Comte (1798), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), and Paul Cézanne (1839).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Antoine Lavoisier ranks 2. Before him are Louis Pasteur (1822). After him are Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Henri Moissan (1852), Alfred Werner (1866), Victor Grignard (1871), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Paul Sabatier (1854), Joseph Black (1728), and Jacques Monod (1910).

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