Antoine Lavoisier
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Birth Name: Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier
Born: 26 August 1743 Died: 8 May 1794
Country of origin: France
Relationship Status: Married
Partner: Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze
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Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26 August 1743 โ 8 May 1794), also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology. He is widely considered in popular literature as the "father of modern chemistry".