Person Lavoisier; Antoine Laurent (? 1743 - 1794) Lavoisier Antoine Laurent ? 1743 - 1794 French Male Paris, France 13, 16 or 26 August 1643, or 1645 Paris, France 08 May 1794

Chemistry Physiology Geology Economics Social reform Career: 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) His wife married Benjamin Thompson (FRS 1779) as her second husband Fellow 03/04/1788 Sources: 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S Pugh and John Hudson, 'The Chemical Work of James Watt, FRS' in NR 1985-86 vol 40 pp 41-52 David F Larder, 'An Unpublished Chemical Essay of James Watt' in NR 1970 vol 25 pp 193-210 W A Smeaton, 'Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau, FRS (1737-1816) and his Relations with British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 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 16 or 26 Aug 1743 - 8 May 1794 NA8248 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes bc528305-e68e-48ca-b1ec-7f3782eaf770