Antoine Lavosier

   Antoine Lavoisier was born on August 26,1743, in Paris. He was a French nobleman and a chemist. Jean Antoine, the father of Lavoisier, was a lawyer in the French Parliament.  Antoine Lavoisier's mother, Émilie Punctis, was a butcher.

  Lavoisier was the first and only son of the wealthy family. He studied at Collège des Quatre-Nations and University of Paris in 1754, at the age of eleven, and studied chemistry, botany, astronomy, and mathematic.

  In 1778, Antoine discovered oxygen. He discovered hydrogen in 1783 and also discovered that water is not an element. Water is made of hydrogens and oxygen. In 1787, he discover silicon.

  Antoine Lavoisier was guillotined on May 8, 1794, during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. He was executed because he was a tax-collected of the government.

Antoine Lavoisier, at the age of fifty years old, was guillotined with his father-in-law.