Person    | Male  Born 26/8/1743  Died 8/5/1794

Antoine Lavoisier

Categories: Science

Countries: France

Born in Paris to a family of nobility. Considered "the father of modern chemistry", by the French anyway, who no doubt would also claim that he discovered oxygen, when we all know that was Priestley. Fell foul of the French Revolution and was guillotined.

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