Because there are three different dead guys who regularly vie for credit for discovering oxygen, we’ve staged a little friendly competition to establish which of these great men deserves the title of ...

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, the French scientist, is known as the Father of Chemistry (Specifically, the Father of Modern ...

Many science textbooks introduce Antoine Lavoisier as the father of modern chemistry. But is Lavoisier truly the 'father' of chemistry? This is not an absurd question. For example, some math textbooks ...

Isis, Vol. 77, No. 4 (Dec., 1986), pp. 647-666 (20 pages) ...

French aristocrat and chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was an incredibly important figure in the history of chemistry, whose findings were equivalent in stature to the impact of Isaac Newton‘s ...

Technically, it was Antoine Lavoisier that proved we have an internal combustion engine, but let’s give the guinea pig credit. It nearly froze in Lavoisier’s special calorimeter to prove something new ...

The name of Isaac Newton comes to mind when one talks about physics. And it’s Charles Darwin we think of when biology is referred to. But what name comes to mind when we think of chemistry? Probably ...

IT is a matter of very little importance whether Lavoisier actually obtained oxygen gas a few weeks or days before Priestley. The bare bald discovery of the gas is a very minor matter when placed in ...

Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) is often called the father of modern chemistry. Lavoisier lived during the French Revolution, and he brought about a scientific revolution in chemistry. He is possibly ...

To Lavoisier Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991) is a collaboration with filmmaker Carl Brown, who specializes in homebrewed chemical film development. In a series ...