1743–1794 French chemist, economist and public servant, architect of the eighteenth-century chemical revolution.
Keywords: elements; oxygen; antiphlogistic chemistry; chemical revolution; analysis; organic chemistry
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
Noel G Coley, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002502
| Further Reading | |
| book Beretta M (1998) Lavoisier, la Rivoluzione Chimica. Milan: Le Scienze. I grandi della scienza, edn Italiano di Scientific American no. 3, March, pp. 103. | |
| book Donovan A (1988) "Lavoisier and the origins of modern chemistry". In: Donovan A (ed.) The Chemical Revolution: Essays in Reinterpretation, Osiris, 2nd Series, vol. 4. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. | |
| book Donovan A (1994) Antoine Lavoisier: Science, Administration and Revolution. Oxford: Blackwells. | |
| book Guerlac H (1972) "Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent". In: Gillispie CC (ed.), Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 18 vols, 1970–1980, vol. 8, pp. 66–91. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Holmes FL (1985) Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. | |
| book Lavoisier AL (1789) Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, Robert Kerr (trans.). New York: Dover Publications. | |
| book Poirier J-P (1996) Lavoisier: Chemist, Biologist, Economist. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. | |
