Lavoisier

American  

[la-vwa-zyey] / la vwaˈzjeɪ /

noun

1. Antoine Laurent 1743–94, French scientist: pioneer in the field of chemistry.

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Lavoisier British  

/ lavwazje /

noun

1. Antoine Laurent (ɑ̃twan lɔrɑ̃). 1743–94, French chemist; one of the founders of modern chemistry. He disproved the phlogiston theory, named oxygen, and discovered its importance in respiration and combustion

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Lavoisier Scientific  

/ lä-vwä-zyā′ /

1. French chemist who is regarded as one of the founders of modern chemistry. In 1778 he discovered that air consists of a mixture of two gases, which he called oxygen and nitrogen. Lavoisier also discovered the law of conservation of mass and devised the modern method of naming chemical compounds. His wife Marie (1758–1836) assisted him with his laboratory work and translated a number of important chemistry texts.

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Completed around 1788, the iconic portrait by Jacques-Louis David of Antoine Lavoisier and his wife, Marie Anne Paulze Lavoisier, celebrates a pioneer of modern chemistry and the woman historians credited as his close collaborator.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 15, 2021

It depicts Antoine Lavoisier with his wife and collaborator, Marie-Anne, and several items related to his scientific discoveries.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2021

Eighteenth-century chemist Antoine Lavoisier, for instance, named oxygen to signify ‘acid-former’, only to have the word construed as ‘‘the son of a vinegar merchant”.

From Nature ● Dec. 9, 2019

Antoine Lavoisier, the French scientist credited with first stating the law of conservation of matter, heated a mixture of tin and air in a sealed flask to produce tin oxide.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

The following month, as Lavoisier and his wife were making tardy plans to slip away to Scotland, Lavoisier was arrested.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson