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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier Biography. Contact Us Privacy Policy Sitemap. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier August 26, - May 8, was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry, finance, biology, and economics. He stated the first version of the law of conservation of matter, recognized and named oxygen , disproved phlogiston theory, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature.

Lavoisier is often referred to as the father of modern chemistry.

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He attended the College Mazarin from to , studying chemistry, botany, astronomy, and mathematics. His first chemical publication appeared in In he worked on a geological survey of Alsace-Lorraine. He was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences in In , he married year-old Marie-Anne Pierette Paulze, who translated from English for him and illustrated his books.

Chemistry Beginning in , he served on the Royal Gunpowder Administration, where his work led to improvements in the production of gunpowder and the use of agricultural chemistry by designing a new method for preparing saltpeter. Some of Lavoisier's most important experiments examined the nature of combustion, or burning. Through these experiments, he demonstrated that burning is a process that involves the combination of a substance with oxygen.