Lavoisier, Antoine‐Laurent
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Lavoisier, Antoine‐Laurent (1743–94) French chemist, performed the first studies of heat output, consumption of oxygen (which he named), and production of carbon dioxide, creating the basis of
calorimetry.
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Revolutions and gunpowder: Antoine Lavoisier.
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry; 5/2/1994; ; 700+ words
; Two hundred years ago Lavoisier, the greatest 18th-century chemist, met his...certainly the most eminent 18th-century chemist, Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794). Lavoisier is credited with the rejection of the phlogiston...
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Robin Clark to Receive Inaugural Franklin-Lavoisier Prize
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 1/22/2009; 700+ words
; ...services to science. About the Franklin-Lavoisier PrizeCreated in 2008, the Franklin- Lavoisier Prize is jointly awarded by the Fondation...Heritage Foundation (CHF). Named for Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and Benjamin Franklin, two of the 18th...
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Los modernos Lavoisier.(fondos de gobierno mexicano para el desarrollo científico y tecnológico)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 10/24/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...hombres de ciencia, dictamin tajante el tribunal del Terror cuando, en mayo de 1793, envi a la guillotina a Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier, padre de la qumica moderna. De modo menos cruento formula hoy una sentencia semejante el gobierno mexicano...
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Capturing the center
Magazine article from: Natural History; 12/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; Lavoisier's geology triumphs. This is the...the Margins," on the great chemist Lavoisier's contributions to the nascent science...appeared in last month's issue. When Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier began his geological work with Jean...
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Scientific history John Adamson on the race to unlock the secrets of matter
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 1/8/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...aristocratic French competitor, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-94), in the race...well. Indeed, the Priestley-Lavoisier contest can be said to have...water to Coca- Cola). As Lavoisier quickly discerned, however...
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'Who wants to be a millionaire?'.(Review)
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry; 9/3/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Scheele, C Joseph Priestley or D Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier?' Your heart sinks, what...On the other hand, it was Lavoisier who realised the significance...Davy; although he overturned Lavoisier's concept of oxygen as the...
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La revolution chimique.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Independent (South Africa); 5/10/2009; 645 words
; ...day after the guillotining of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, on May 8, 1794, mathematician...reproduce a similar one." Lavoisier's execution was the culmination...investors and administrators. Lavoisier became a member at the age of...
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Oxygen Discovered by the Batman of the 18th Century
Magazine article from: Chemical Engineering Progress; 8/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...different take on things. That person was Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. In many ways, Lavoisier was the Batman of chemistry. just as Brace...socialite by day who fought crime by night, Lavoisier was a respectable millionaire socialite by...
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The death tax lives!
Magazine article from: Human Events; 6/18/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...the Conservation of Government Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry...constant. Another way of putting Lavoisier's Law: Men are not God...force of gravity, chopped off Lavoisier's head: The revolutionaries...
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Du Pont honors scientists and engineers.
PR Newswire; 5/24/1990; 700+ words
; ...are living, received a gold Lavoisier Medal for Technical Achievement...people around the world." The Lavoisier Medal was named in honor of the 18th century French chemist, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, who served as teacher and...
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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier The French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) was the founder of the modern...the author of the oxygen theory of combustion. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was born in Paris on Aug. 26, 1743, the son...
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Lavoisier, Antoine (Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier; 1743–1794)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
LAVOISIER, ANTOINE (Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier; 1743 – 1794) LAVOISIER, ANTOINE (Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier; 1743 – 1794), considered the father of...
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Lavoisier Antoine-Laurent
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Lavoisier Antoine-Laurent ( b. Paris, France...and public servant, Lavoisier was first of all a chemist...Their first child, Antoine-Laurent, the subject of this...old solicitor. Here Lavoisier spent the first five...
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Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (1743–94) French chemist who founded modern chemistry. He demolished the phlogiston theory (which said that phlogiston...
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Lavoisier, Antoine‐Laurent
Book article from: A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition
Lavoisier, Antoine‐Laurent (1743–94) French chemist, performed the first studies of heat output, consumption of oxygen (which he named), and production of carbon dioxide, creating the basis of calorimetry .
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