'Father Of Chemistry' and his unknown facts - Antoine Lavoisier

                             Antoine Lavoisier



I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which combustion and decomposition
are formed.                                                                            - Antoine Lavoisier


Unknown and interesting Facts:

  •  Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier was born to a wealthy family of nobility in Paris on 26 August 1743. The son of an attorney at Parliament of Paris.
  • At the school, his scientific interests were aroused, and studied chemistry, botany, astronomy and mathematics. 
  • He was able to spend much of his three years as a law student, attending public and private lectures on chemistry and physics and working under tutelage of leading naturists.
                          



  • He completed degree in law and admitted to the bar, but never practiced as a Lawyer. However, he continued his scientific education in his spare time. 
  • He compiles, the first complete list of elements, discovered and named oxygen and hydrogen, helped to develop the metric system, helped revise and standardize chemical nomenclature.
  • He had the tendency of using the results of others without acknowledgement and drawing conclusions.
  • He served as a Leading financer and public administrator before the French revolution. 
  • He was the first person to prove that matter's shape may change but its mass will stay the same.
  • In 1769, he began making a geological map of France, it was considered as a important tool for the country's industrial development.
  • In 1771, he married Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze who was 14 years old. Later, she translated English chemical works into French, assisted in the Laboratory work and diagrams for scientific work that he was involved in.
  • After Lavoisier appointed as Gunpowder Commissioner, there had an improvement in  quality and quantity of French gunpowder that was produced and uplifted the revenue source for the government.
  • He suspected that the combustion and respiration are chemically the same. He demonstrated this with the help of Pierre-Simon Laplace.
  • He burned Hydrogen with oxygen and found that water was produced, establishing water is not an element, but is naturally a compound made from the elements hydrogen and oxygen. This result is astonished by many people, because at that time 'everyone knew' that water was itself one of the 'indivisible' elements.
  • His links to the tax collection led him to execution  by guillotine after being branded as a traitor. He died on May, 1794 and later, French government found Lavoisier was innocent of all charges. By then, of course, it was too late, he was just another innocent victim of the revolution's regin of terror.




It is impossible to dissociate language from science.... To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

                                                                                                        -  Antoine Lavoisier 

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