(Guihai July eighth day), August 26, 1743, the founder of modern chemistry, Lavoisier's birthday.

Lavoisier, French chemist, August 26, 1743, was born in Paris. His father was a lawyer. Lavoisier's death "target =" _blank "> Lavoisier grew up in a family of teachers counseling, studied astronomy, mathematics, chemistry, botany, mineralogy and geology. Often close to a famous chemist very interested in, and thus on the chemical age of 23, once said that papers on the problems of the city lights, the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Sciences in 1768 was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences. (history TodayOnHistory.com) < br> Lavoisier, the founder of modern chemistry., his performance in the past and many experimental results, be integrated to make it a complete doctrine up to one hundred days as long as he "Shaogan water will not change the soil "experiment, is well known. experiment through this time, he overturned the doctrine of the substance can not tautomerism, and further proof of the correctness of the law of conservation of matter from 1772 he began to study the combustion problems, conducted a series of experiments, he found that the phosphorus, sulfur, when burned, the increase in weight is due to the combination with the air generated by the composition of the air and then he studied, found that the air fifths of a substance can combustion, which was called "pure air", later named the "oxygen" This discovery overturned the then dominant "phlogiston" theory, so that the chemical science forward promote a big step and he also proved by experiments, the animal's breathing and combustion of substances, is also a kind of oxidation his major works, the basic chemistry tutorial "," Physics and Chemistry Introduction (history Today TodayOnHistory.com)
during the French Revolution, Lavoisier had been framed prison, was killed in May 1794.