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Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (–)
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Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (lə-VWAH-zee-ay;[1][2][3]French:[ɑ̃twanlɔʁɑ̃dəlavwazje]; 26 August &#;&#; 8 May ),[4] also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.[5]
It is generally accepted that Lavoisier's great accomplishments in chemistry stem largely from his changing the science from a qualitative to a quantitative one.
Lavoisier is most noted for his discovery of the role oxygen plays in combustion. He named oxygen (), recognizing it as an element, and also recognized hydrogen as an element (), opposing the phlogiston theory. Lavoisier helped construct the metric system, wrote the first extensive l