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Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier was born in 1743 on August 26th in Paris. He studied at the College Mazarin. In 1768 he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences. Through out his life he has held many public offices, some of which are director of the state gunpowder works, member of a commission to establish a uniform system of weights and measures, and also Antoine was the commissary of the treasury.
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.... bodies the idea of the last point reached by analysis, all substances that we have no yet been able to decompose by any means are elements to us. His proposed oxygen theory discredited the phlogiston theory and described oxygens role in respiration.
Antoine Lavoisier lived a monumental life and in his attempt to introduce reforms in the French monetary and taxation system and in farming methods, as one of the farmers-general, he was arrested and tried by the revolutionary trib ....
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