Slide 2 August 23 1734 May 8 Slide 3 Born August 23 1734
Inherited large family fortune after the death of his mother at age
five Went to Mazarin College majored in Mathematics, Botany,
Astronomy, & Chemistry In 1768 was elected into the French
Academy of Science At the age of twenty eight married thirteen year
old co- owners daughter First paper published on 1764 Executed
using the guillotine during the height of the French Revolution,
where fellow college Joseph Priestly fled Europe to Pennsylvania
LIFE Slide 4 IDEA OF THE ATOM Lavoisier did not have his own model
of the atom His studies and finding helped other chemists such as
Joseph Proust and John Dalton Slide 5 In 1774 he repeated Robert
Boyles tin calx experiment He furthered Aristotles theory of the
four elements by saying that their werent just four elements that
their were hundreds of different elements EXPERIMENTS Slide 6
Helped construct metric system Helped with Law of Conservation of
Mass Studies helped construct beginning of the Periodic table for
Dmitri Mendeleeb Named Oxygen 1774 Named Hydrogen in 1783 MAJOR
SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS Slide 7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Lavoisier#
Contributions_to_chemistryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Lavoisier#
Contributions_to_chemistry
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Lav
oisier.htmlhttp://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Lav
oisier.html http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/An
toine_Lavoisierhttp://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/An
toine_Lavoisier http://mattson.creighton.edu/History_Gas_Chem
istry/Lavoisier.htmlhttp://mattson.creighton.edu/History_Gas_Chem
istry/Lavoisier.html BIBLIOGRAPHY Slide 8 THE END
