Books with title Antoine Lavoisier: Founder of Modern Chemistry

Antoine Lavoisier is considered to be the father of modern chemistry. Using experiments and careful measurements, he created a system to help chemists understand how matter behaves. He discovered and named oxygen and hydrogen, and helped set up a system to classify these and other elements. Perhaps his most famous discovery is the role oxygen plays in combustion.

What was called science in the 1700s was often not scientific. But a Frenchman, Antoine Lavoisier, was a real scientist. He experimented carefully, learned from other scientists, and shared his findings. He discovered important things about chemicals and identified many basic substances, called elements. Lavoisier, known as the founder of modern chemistry, also created the system for naming combinations of elements that scientists still use today. For more information, read Elements, another book in the Mission: Science series.