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.

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 ...

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 ...

The French 18th-century chemist Antoine Lavoisier is a complicated historical figure. Scientifically, of course, he is an undisputed giant, helping usher in the chemical revolution as the field ...

DR. McKIE has put together the already known chief data of Lavoisier's life and researches, and has duly taken advantage of the recent additions to our understanding which are due to the late Dr. A. N ...

Technically, it was Antoine Lavoisier that proved we have an internal combustion engine, but let’s give the guinea pig credit. It nearly froze in Lavoisier’s special calorimeter to prove something new ...