In a way that seems almost self-exemplifying, the idea provided a new way of looking at science itself: not as one thing, but two. In the “normal” phase scientists applied their physical and ...

Antoine Lavoisier is deservedly considered one of the great chemists in history. We might not know of his experiments if it weren’t for his wife. She became a remarkable, if unconventional ...

Antoine Lavoisier (1743-94) was a -- possibly even the -- founding father of the chemical revolution: a Washington, a Jefferson or a Franklin. (Lavoisier in fact knew Benjamin Franklin, whose ...

In 1788, Jacques Louis David painted a full-length double portrait of the chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, his wife and scientific collaborator, casting ...

Antoine Lavoisier didn’t just study chemistry—he transformed it Known as the Father of Modern Chemistry, he shattered old myths, discovered the role of oxygen in burning, and laid the ...

Antoine Lavoisier News from United Press International.On Aug. 26, 1920, eight days after it was ratified, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect -- giving women the right to ...

At the height of the French Revolution, he was accused of selling adulterated tobacco among other crimes. He had also intervened on behalf of a number of foreign-born scientists and mathematicians, ...

Credit: Dorothy Mahon, 2019 Antoine Lavoisier's marriage to Marie-Anne Paulze —the daughter of Jacques Paulze, a colleague at the Ferme Generale— was actually arranged by the bride's father.

On May 8, 1794, Antoine Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, was executed by guillotine during France’s Reign of Terror. In 1879 George Selden of Rochester, N ...