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 most noted for his discovery of the role oxygen plays in combustion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine Lavoisier has received more than 4,124,102 page views. His biography is available in 103 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 101 in 2019). Antoine Lavoisier is the 4th most popular chemist, the 26th most popular biography from France (up from 28th 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 Alfred Nobel, Louis Pasteur, and Dmitri Mendeleev. After him are John Dalton, Irène Joliot-Curie, Robert Boyle, Amedeo Avogadro, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Svante Arrhenius, and Fritz Haber.

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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, Marquis de Condorcet, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Toussaint Louverture, and Nicolai Abildgaard. Among people deceased in 1794, Antoine Lavoisier ranks 1. After him are Maximilien Robespierre, Georges Danton, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Cesare Beccaria, Camille Desmoulins, Marquis de Condorcet, Alexandre de Beauharnais, Edward Gibbon, Jacques Hébert, Élisabeth of France, and André Chénier.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Lavoisier ranks 26 out of 6,770. Before him are John Calvin (1509), Paul Cézanne (1839), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Brigitte Bardot (1934), Napoleon II (1811), and Auguste Comte (1798). After him are Denis Diderot (1713), Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807), Nostradamus (1503), Napoleon III (1808), Édith Piaf (1915), and Paul Gauguin (1848).

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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), Paul Sabatier (1854), Victor Grignard (1871), Jacques Monod (1910), Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Joseph Black (1728), and Joseph Proust (1754).

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