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Lavoisier


            Chemistry is the most paramount science of all, because all sciences depend on it. Many scientists made great contributions to this particular science, but none made a greater impact than Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, the most resplendent scientist throughout the whole world. He is still known to be the father of modern chemistry, because he has made the greatest impacts in the world of science; to understand these impacts one should acquire knowledge of his private and public life. .
             Lavoisier was born on August 26, 1743 in Paris. His birthplace was a luxurious and solace mansion, even though Paris was facing poverty problems. Lavoisier's father was an attorney of the Parliament of Paris and his mother was the daughter of the secretary to the Vice-Admiral of France (Riedman, 11).
             In 1748, his mother died so he moved to his grandmother's house. Lavoisier then started his education when he was eleven years old and after graduating high school, he was sent to the most well respected College in Paris, College Mazarin (Riedman, 12). At college Mazarin, he studied law, botany, geology, chemistry, and physiology (Grolier Biographies, 70). After graduating Mazarin, Lavoisier focused on chemistry. To progress in chemistry he bought a huge and elegant lab that he bought from the money he invested in the Ferme Generale, a tax collecting company that he became a member of. In the lab, he studied combustion and many other aspects of Chemistry (Grolier Biographies, 70). In 1771, Lavoisier married Marie Paulz, the daughter of Jaques Paulz, who was the director of the French and Indian company (Reidman, 56). Marie played a vital role in Lavoiser's life; she was a loving wife as well as an advertent assistant to Lavoisier's experiments (Reidman, 128). Lavoisier's part in the tax collector company made him very rich, but it was also his downfall. During the French Revolution a radical group known as the Jacobins, who killed many people who were opposed to the French Revolution and among these were many tax collectors.


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