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Antoine Lavoisier. August 23 – May 8. Life . Born August 23 Inherited large family fortune after the death of his mother at age five Went to Mazarin College majored in Mathematics, Botany , Astronomy, & Chemistry In was elected into the French Academy of Science

Antoine Lavoisier

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1. Antoine Lavoisier August 23 – May 8

2. Life • Born August 23 • Inherited large family fortune after the death of his mother at age five • Went to Mazarin College majored in Mathematics, Botany , Astronomy, & Chemistry • In was elected into the French Academy of Science • At the age of twenty eight married thirteen year old co-owner’s daughter • First paper published on • Executed using the guillotine during the height of the French Revolution, where fellow college Joseph Priestly fled Europe to Pennsylvania

3. Idea of The Atom • Lavoisier did not have his own “model” of the atom • His studies and finding helped other chemists such as Joseph Proust and John Dalton

4. Experiments • In he repeated Robert Boyle’s tin calx experiment • He furthered Aristotle’s theory of the four elements by saying that their weren’t just four elements that their were hundreds of different elements

5. Major Scientific contributions • Helped construct metric system • Helped with Law of Conservation of Mass • Studies helped construct beginning of the Periodic table for Dmitri Mendeleeb • Named Oxygen • Named Hydrogen in

6. Bibliography • #Contributions_to_chemistry • • •

7. The End