Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent

French Chemist and called the "father of modern chemistry".

1743- Born 26th of August.

1754-1761 - Attended the College Mazarin studying chemistry, botany, astronomy, and mathematics.

1764 - His first chemical publication appeared.

1767 - Worked on a geological survey of Alsace-Lorraine.

         - Elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, France's most elite scientific society.

1768 - Worked for an essay on street lighting and in recognition for his earlier research.

1769 - He worked on the first geological map of France.

         - Attempted to introduce reforms in the French monetary and taxation system.

1771 - Married the 13-year-old Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, the daughter of a co-owner of the Ferme.

1775 - Lavoisier served in the Royal Gunpowder Administration.

Lavoisier's most important experiments examined the nature of combustion, or burning.

1783 - Discovered that the flammable air of Henry Cavendish which he termed hydrogen (Greek for "water-

former"), combined with oxygen to produce a dew, as Joseph Priestley had reported, which appeared to be

water.

1789 - Wrote "Traite elementaire de chimie".

1794 - Lavoisier was branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists.

        - Convicted, and executed on the 8th of May in Paris.