Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was a French nobleman who lived from the years 1743-1794. Despite his nickname as the “Father of Chemistry”, Antoine was not only a chemist special in that field. He studied botany, astronomy, arithmetic, and economics, but this allowed him to publicly serve under the French Revolution. He stated the first version of the law of conservation of matter, recognized and named oxygen, disproved and changed the phlogiston theory, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature. Lavoisier was also an investor and administrator of the Ferme Générale, a private tax collection company; chairman of the board of the Discount Bank (later the Banque de France); and a powerful member of a number of other aristocratic administrative councils. This is the basic briefing of his findings and occupational records. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was born on the 26th of August, 1743. He was the son of Jean-Antoine Lavoisier, a prominent advocate, and his wife, Émilie Punctis, the daughter of an advocate of the Parliament. Émilie died three years after the birth of their daughter Marie. Antoine was 5 years old at the time, and his father thought it best to leave their house and move in with his mother. Antoine and his sister spent their years by the care of their aunt. The aunt, Mlle Constance Punctis, loved the children so much that she devoted her life to them, choosing not to marry so she could give them her full attention. Marie and Antoine both gave her a lot of sympathy and respect as they grew older. When he was young, he had an unusual concern and attention for the public good. Being that Antoine was the first child of a wealthy bourgeois family, he inherited most of his mother’s wealth and decided to walk in his father’s footsteps. So Lavoisier went to the prestigious College Mazarin after being introduced to humanities and the sciences. Antoine’s purpose of going was also because his aunt persuaded him the importance of education and enrolled him into