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 ...

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 ...

WILMINGTON, DE, June, 20, 2002 — Dr. Wilfred Sweeny – the scientist who revolutionized firefighting, professional racing and other thermal-related professions by discovering the life-saving Nomex® ...

Diorama "The Advance of Physiology" showing Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) carrying out an experiment in Paris in 1789, made by Edward Ashenden for the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, London, ...

SEATTLE-- Oxygen was discovered more than 230 years ago, seized center stage in the 18th century chemical revolution and is still catching fire today. Oxygen has been the subject of space missions, ...

The French 18th-century chemist Antoine Lavoisier is a complicated historical figure. Scientifically, of course, he is an undisputed giant, helping usher in the chemical revolution as the field ...

Marie Paulze was only 13 when she married the wealthy French lawyer Antoine Lavoisier, and she immediately started learning English so that she could act as the scientific go-between for his true ...

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 ...