| Authorised form of name | Lavoisier; Antoine Laurent (? 1743 - 1794) |
| Dates | ? 1743 - 1794 |
| Nationality | French |
| Place of birth | Paris, France |
| Date of birth | 13, 16 or 26 August 1643, or 1645 |
| Place of death | Paris, France |
| Date of death | 08 May 1794 |
| Research field | Chemistry |
| Physiology |
| Geology |
| Economics |
| Social reform |
| Activity | 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)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/04/1788 |
| Relationships | His wife married Benjamin Thompson (FRS 1779) as her second husband |
| Source | 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David F Larder, 'An Unpublished Chemical Essay of James Watt' in NR 1970 vol 25 pp 193-210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 |
| Code | NA8248 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/002649 | Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent | nd |
| IM/002647 | Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent | nd |
| CB/2/537 | Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to Lavoisier | 30 June 1791 |
| IM/002646 | Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent | 1993 |
| MM/5/28 | Letter from Joseph Priestley, Birmingham, to Josiah Wedgwood | 16 February 1791 |
| MM/5/25 | Letter from Joseph Priestley, Birmingham, to Josiah Wedgwood | 18 August 1788 |
| MM/5/29 | Letter from Joseph Priestley, Birmingham, to Josiah Wedgwood | 26 February 1791 |
| CB/1/1/215 | Letter from Claude Louis Berthollet, Paris to Charles Blagden | 6 September 1784 |
| CB/1/2/10 | Letter from Charles Blagden, Paris to Joseph Banks, Soho Square, London | 27 June 1783 |
| CB/1/3/194 | Letter from Antoine Lavoisier, Paris, to Charles Blagden | 30 April 1789 |
| NLB/10/660 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Secretary, Academy of Sciences Institute, Paris | 15 January 1895 |
| NLB/10/657 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Armstrong, Fellow of the Royal Society | 14 January 1895 |
| NLB/10/650 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Wyndham Rowland Dunstan, Fellow of the Royal Society | 12 January 1895 |
| NLB/10/649 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society | 12 January 1895 |
| NLB/10/658 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Monsieur le Secrétaire, Academie des Sciences de L'Institute de France, Paris | 14 January 1895 |
| NLB/10/892 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Monsieur Gauthier-Villars, Treasurer, Lavoisier Memorial Committee, 55 Quair des Augustins, Paris | 27 February 1895 |
| NLB/10/1057 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Monsieur Gauthier-Villars, Treasurer of the Lavoisier Memorial Committee, 55 Quai des Augustins, Paris | 11 February 1895 |
| EC/1787/38 | Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| CB/1/1/214 | Letter from Claude Louis Berthollet to Charles Blagden | 10 April 1784 |
| IM/002650 | Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent | nd |
| M/107 | Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent | |
| IM/007225 | Portrait of Antoine Lavoisier | c.1835 |
| IM/007232 | Portrait of Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier | 1801 |