David’s original painting of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife depicted the couple as self-indulged nobles rather than liberal leaders of science. Met conservator Dorothy Mahon performs ...

In 1788, Jacques Louis David painted a full-length double portrait of the chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, his wife and scientific collaborator, casting ...

LAVOISIER IN THE YEAR ONE: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution, by Madison Smartt Bell, Norton/Atlas, 2005, 214 pages, $22.95 (ISBN 0-393-05155-2) Antoine Lavoisier concurred with the ...

Many science textbooks introduce Antoine Lavoisier as the father of modern chemistry. But is Lavoisier truly the 'father' of chemistry? This is not an absurd question. For example, some math textbooks ...

Of all the ways to die in the name of science -- Marie Curie succumbing to radiation, Jesse Lazear dying of yellow fever while studying it in Cuba -- Antoine Lavoisier's was the most dramatic. As the ...

There have been a few famous feuds in science history, but there’s only been one that left a scientist headless. Unfortunately for all of history, in this case, the better scientist lost. That’s ...

Antoine Lavoisier is deservedly considered one of the great chemists in history. We might not know of his experiments if it weren’t for his wife. She became a remarkable, if unconventional, chemist ...

Antoine Lavoisier didn’t just study chemistry—he transformed it Known as the Father of Modern Chemistry, he shattered old myths, discovered the role of oxygen in burning, and laid the foundation for ...