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Antoine Lavoisier

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Noun1.Antoine Lavoisier - French chemist known as the father of modern chemistry; discovered oxygen and disproved the theory of phlogiston (1743-1794)


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Then, in the 18th century, Antoine Lavoisier defined basal metabolic rate.
The authors also carefully demonstrate the influence of Starkey on successors such as Wilhelm Homberg and even Antoine Lavoisier.
In addition to experimenting in a home lab (conveniently located near the back garden, so that if something caught fire "I could rush outside with it and fling it on the lawn"), he studied and greatly admired the early chemists such as Robert Boyle, Antoine Lavoisier, Humphry Davy, and Marie Curie.
 
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