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 ...

Lavoisier, chimiste visionnaire, se faisait aussi gentleman-farmer en Loir-et-Cher. Malgré ses grandes découvertes, la Révolution ne l’a pas laissé poursuivre ses travaux.

DANS LE GRENIER DE LA SCIENCE (5/6) - Pour ses tenants, le phlogistique était présent dans tous les corps et s’en échappait lors de la combustion. Mais la balance de Lavoisier a raconté l ...

Jacques Louis David’s ‘Portrait of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze)’ is a tense painting created just before the chemist was guillotined.

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 ...

Antoine Lavoisier is considered, by some, to be the father of modern chemistry. He’s one of the scientists that isolated and identified the element of oxygen.

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.

Philip Ball tells the story of Madame Lavoisier, translator of oxygen. At a time when science was almost a closed book to women, her skills facilitated a revolution in chemistry.