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Lavoisier, Antoine
- A French scientist of the eighteenth century, Lavoisier was one of the founders of modern chemistry . He discovered the role of oxygen in chemical reactions .
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Notes
He was beheaded during the French Revolution . The presiding judge at his trial is supposed to have remarked, “The Republic has no need of scientists.”
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It was reserved for the greatest of all chemists, Antoine Lavoisier, to use the fact stumbled on by Priestley.
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