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Raised as a nobleman and educated in the leading scientific theories of his day, Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), now universally recognized as the "Father of Chemistry," named both oxygen and hydrogen, proved that sulfur was an element, and contributed to the formulation of what we now know as the metric system, until he was guillotined on highly questionable charges at the height of the Reign of Terror.
Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), raised as a nobleman and educated in the leading scientific theories of his day, now universally recognized as the "Father of Chemistry," until guillotined on highly questionable charges at the height of the Reign of Terror, naming both oxygen and hydrogen, proving that sulfur was an element, and contributing to the formulation of what we now know as the metric system.
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