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Also Known As Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
Born August 26, 1743 • Paris • France
Died May 8, 1794 (aged 50) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study chemical compound • chemical element • chemical reaction • combustion • conservation of mass • heat • hydrogen • oxidation • oxygen • quantitative chemical analysis • respiration • water

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Portrait of French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, shown in formal 18th-century attire with a white wig and ruffled cravat, looking slightly to his left.
Engraving of Antoine Lavoisier in eighteenth-century attire observing a laboratory experiment with glassware and scientific equipment on a table.
Ernest Board: Lavoisier Explaining to His Wife the Result of His Experiments on Air
Antoine Lavoisier
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Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
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Guyton de Morveau, Louis Bernard
Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau
French chemist and educator
German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish chemist
Mayow, detail of an engraving
John Mayow
English chemist and physiologist
Claude-Louis Berthollet.
Claude-Louis Berthollet
French chemist
Joseph-Louis Proust, medallion by Pierre-Jean David
Joseph-Louis Proust
French chemist
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Henry-Louis Le Chatelier
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Étienne-François Geoffroy, engraving by Landon after a portrait by Nicolas de Largillière
Étienne-François Geoffroy
French chemist
Vauquelin, lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech
Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin
French chemist
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Hilaire Bernigaud, count de Chardonnet
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Ferdinand Berthoud
horologist and author
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
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Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle
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Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Abū Mūsā
Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Ḥayyān
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Sir Derek H.R. Barton
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Jacques Dubochet
Swiss biophysicist

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