page_title: Antoine Lavoisier
section_title: Notable works
hierarchical_section_title: Antoine Lavoisier / Notable works
caption_attribution_description: English: Lavoisier's Laboratory, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris:Pneumatic chemistry two gazomèters Български: Лабораторията на Лавоазие, Музей на изкуствата и занаятите, Париж
context_page_description: Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, 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".
  It is generally accepted that Lavoisier's great accomplishments in chemistry stem largely from his changing the science from a qualitative to a quantitative one. Lavoisier is most noted for his discovery of the role oxygen plays in combustion. He recognized and named oxygen and hydrogen, and opposed the phlogiston theory. Lavoisier helped construct the metric system, wrote the first extensive list of elements, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature. He predicted the existence of silicon and was also the first to establish that sulfur was an element rather than a compound. He discovered that, although matter may change its form or shape, its mass always remains the same.
  Lavoisier was a powerful member of a number of aristocratic councils, and an administrator of the Ferme générale.
caption: Lavoisier's Laboratory, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris
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