Article: Lavoisier, Antoine (Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier; 17431794)

LAVOISIER, ANTOINE (Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier; 1743 1794)

LAVOISIER, ANTOINE (Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier; 1743 1794), considered the father of modern French chemistry and the discoverer of oxygen. Born to a family of notaries and lawyers, Lavoisier was raised in the comfort of bourgeois Paris and attended the Coll è ge Mazarin, where he studied literature, rhetoric, and the natural sciences. Intended for a legal career (he received his law degree in 1763 and several prizes for rhetoric), he early on moved first into mineralogy, traveling with Jean É tienne Guettard of the Academy of Sciences, and then into chemistry, following especially the public courses of the ...

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