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Lavoisier — Chemist, founder of modern chemistry, died in 1794
Son of a family of the robe, elected to the Académie des sciences at twenty-four, he bought an office of tax farmer that gave him a fortune, the best laboratory in Europe — and the scaffold. He named oxygen and hydrogen, established that mass is conserved, and sat on the metric system commission. (Editorial synthesis)
Lavoisier was born on 26 August 1743. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Lavoisier was born in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Lavoisier died on 8 May 1794. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Lavoisier died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Lavoisier died of his execution by guillotine. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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