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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution 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 -- ...

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 ...