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Authorised form of nameLavoisier; Antoine Laurent (? 1743 - 1794)
Dates? 1743 - 1794
NationalityFrench
Place of birthParis, France
Date of birth13, 16 or 26 August 1643, or 1645
Place of deathParis, France
Date of death08 May 1794
Research fieldChemistry
Physiology
Geology
Economics
Social reform
ActivityCareer:
Farmer-general; his explanation of calcination and combustion has led him to be considered a founder of modern chemistry; guillotined
Memberships:
Academy of Sciences, Paris (1768)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/04/1788
RelationshipsHis wife married Benjamin Thompson (FRS 1779) as her second husband
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
References:
Nicole Kurtz-Newell, 'Lavoisier, Scientist and Public Figure', review of Arthur Donovan, Antoine Lavoisier: Science, Administration and Revolution in NR 1997 vol 51 pp 144-146
Stephen F Mason, 'From Phlogiston to Caloric and Oxygen', review of Arthur Donovan, Antoine Lavoisier: Science, Administration, and Revolution in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 338-340, plate
Alan Q Morton, 'Previous Public Perceptions of Science', review of Larry Stewart, The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660-1750 and Jan Golinski, Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820 in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 157-159
Stephen F Mason, 'Jean Hyacinthe de Magellan, FRS, and the Chemical Revolution of the Eighteenth Century' in NR 1991 vol 45 pp 155-164
Jennifer S Pugh and John Hudson, 'The Chemical Work of James Watt, FRS' in NR 1985-86 vol 40 pp 41-52
David F Larder, 'An Unpublished Chemical Essay of James Watt' in NR 1970 vol 25 pp 193-210
W A Smeaton, 'Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau, FRS (1737-1816) and his Relations with British Scientists' in NR 1967 vol 22 pp 113-130
Denis I Duveen, 'Lavoisier Writes to Fourcroy from Prison' in NR 1958 vol 13 pp 59-60
N G Coley, 'George Pearson MD, FRS (1751-1828): 'The greatest chemist in England'? in NR 2003 vol 57 pp
161-175
W P Griffith and P J T Morris, 'Charles Hatchett FRS (1765 - 1847), chemist and discoverer of niobium' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 299 - 316
P Fara, 'Measuring mistakes. The measure of all things: the seven year odyssey that transformed the world, by K Adler' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 350 - 351
N Coley, 'The Making of a Hero of Science, Marco Beretta, Imaging a career in science: the iconography of Antoine Lauren Lavoisier' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 233-234
M Crosland, 'Relationships between the Royal Society and the Academie des Sciences in the late eighteenth century' in NR 2005 vol 59 pp 25-34
Notes:
Index to BR gives birth date as '16/26 Aug 1743'; Pogg gives these alternatives, as well as 26 Aug 1745; BR gives 13 Aug 1743, with 26 written above 13; DSB also gives 26
CodeNA8248
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
IM/002649Lavoisier, Antoine Laurentnd
IM/002648Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent1991
IM/002647Lavoisier, Antoine Laurentnd
CB/2/537Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to Lavoisier30 June 1791
IM/002646Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent1993
MM/5/28Letter from Joseph Priestley, Birmingham, to Josiah Wedgwood16 February 1791
MM/5/25Letter from Joseph Priestley, Birmingham, to Josiah Wedgwood18 August 1788
MM/5/29Letter from Joseph Priestley, Birmingham, to Josiah Wedgwood26 February 1791
CB/1/1/215Letter from Claude Louis Berthollet, Paris to Charles Blagden6 September 1784
CB/1/2/10Letter from Charles Blagden, Paris to Joseph Banks, Soho Square, London27 June 1783
CB/1/3/194Letter from Antoine Lavoisier, Paris, to Charles Blagden30 April 1789
NLB/10/660Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Secretary, Academy of Sciences Institute, Paris15 January 1895
NLB/10/657Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Armstrong, Fellow of the Royal Society14 January 1895
NLB/10/650Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Wyndham Rowland Dunstan, Fellow of the Royal Society12 January 1895
NLB/10/649Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society12 January 1895
NLB/10/658Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Monsieur le Secrétaire, Academie des Sciences de L'Institute de France, Paris14 January 1895
NLB/10/892Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Monsieur Gauthier-Villars, Treasurer, Lavoisier Memorial Committee, 55 Quair des Augustins, Paris27 February 1895
NLB/10/1057Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Monsieur Gauthier-Villars, Treasurer of the Lavoisier Memorial Committee, 55 Quai des Augustins, Paris11 February 1895
IM/002650Lavoisier, Antoine Laurentnd
EC/1787/38Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CB/1/1/214Letter from Claude Louis Berthollet to Charles Blagden10 April 1784
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