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Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine Lavoisier. August 23 1734 – May 8. Life . Born August 23 1734 Inherited large family fortune after the death of his mother at age five Went to Mazarin College majored in Mathematics, Botany , Astronomy, & Chemistry In 1768 was elected into the French Academy of Science

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Antoine Lavoisier

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  1. Antoine Lavoisier August 23 1734 – May 8

  2. Life • Born August 23 1734 • Inherited large family fortune after the death of his mother at age five • Went to Mazarin College majored in Mathematics, Botany , Astronomy, & Chemistry • In 1768 was elected into the French Academy of Science • At the age of twenty eight married thirteen year old co-owner’s daughter • First paper published on 1764 • Executed using the guillotine during the height of the French Revolution, where fellow college Joseph Priestly fled Europe to Pennsylvania

  3. Idea of The Atom • Lavoisier did not have his own “model” of the atom • His studies and finding helped other chemists such as Joseph Proust and John Dalton

  4. Experiments • In 1774 he repeated Robert Boyle’s tin calx experiment • He furthered Aristotle’s theory of the four elements by saying that their weren’t just four elements that their were hundreds of different elements

  5. Major Scientific contributions • Helped construct metric system • Helped with Law of Conservation of Mass • Studies helped construct beginning of the Periodic table for Dmitri Mendeleeb • Named Oxygen 1774 • Named Hydrogen in 1783

  6. Bibliography • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Lavoisier#Contributions_to_chemistry • http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Lavoisier.html • http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Antoine_Lavoisier • http://mattson.creighton.edu/History_Gas_Chemistry/Lavoisier.html

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