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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794)
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (lä-vwä-zyā’). A celebrated French chemist, one of the founders of modern chemistry; born at Paris, Aug. 16, 1743; died there, May 8, 1794. He first gave system to chemistry; and not least of his services to science was his part in devising—with Guyton de Morveau—a consistent scheme of chemical nomenclature. Besides papers contributed to the proceedings of learned societies, he wrote an ‘Elementary Treatise on Chemistry’ (1789). He was a farmer-general of taxes, and was guillotined for it in the Terror.