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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Antoine Lavoisier

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IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

This is a professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operations centre in Piscata...

Group, Community / Clubs, Science, USA

2 memorials
Geber / Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan

Geber / Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan

Chemist, alchemist, astronomer, astrologer, engineer, geographer, philosopher, physicist, and pharmacist and physician.  The first practical alchemist.

Person, Science, Iran/Persia

1 memorial
Nature

Nature

Scientific Journal published by Macmillan's. Created by Norman Lockyer to 'provide cultivated readers with an accessible forum for reading about advances in scientific knowledge' The journal's name...

Media, Journalism / Publishing, Science

1 memorial
Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan

Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan

Prominent botanist and mycologist (fungi). Leader of the first women's army corps. Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan, GBE   During WW1 she served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and...

Person, Armed Forces, Gender Issues, Science

1 memorial
Ordnance Survey

Ordnance Survey

Charles Close Society gives the history of OS Maps.

Media, Science

2 memorials