LAVOISIER IN THE YEAR ONE: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution, by Madison Smartt Bell, Norton/Atlas, 2005, 214 pages, $22.95 (ISBN 0-393-05155-2) Antoine Lavoisier concurred with the ...

Antoine Lavoisier is deservedly considered one of the great chemists in history. We might not know of his experiments if it weren’t for his wife. She became a remarkable, if unconventional, chemist ...

When conservators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York began working on a huge portrait of a pioneering chemist and his wife from the 1780s, they expected to touch up a bit of its varnish.

Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, was tried ...

In 1788, Jacques Louis David painted a full-length double portrait of the chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, his wife and scientific collaborator, casting ...

The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution Of all the ways to die in the name of science -- Marie Curie succumbing to radiation, Jesse Lazear dying of yellow fever while studying it in Cuba -- ...

Antoine Lavoisier didn’t just study chemistry—he transformed it Known as the Father of Modern Chemistry, he shattered old myths, discovered the role of oxygen in burning, and laid the foundation for ...