1. ANTOINE LAVOISIER
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was born on August 26, He was born into a wealthy family, being the son of a lawyer and his mother being the daughter of a wealthy family.

2. Early Life
Lavoisier’s mother died when he was 5 years old, causing him to inherit her money.
Due to his family’s wealth, he easily paid for College des Quatre-Nations.
He studied chemistry, botany, astronomy, and mathematics.
He collaborated with Jean-Etienne Guettard and was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences. 

3. After College
Lavoisier married 13-year old Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze when he was 28.
Marie Anne soon proved to be a scientific partner for her husband, Lavoisier.
He collaborated with Jean-Etienne Guettard to work on a geological survey on Alsace-Lorraine.

4. Life as a Chemist
Lavoisier experimented with Pierre-Simon Laplace to conclude that respiration in mammals was the same as combustion of organic materials through the use of inhaled oxygen.
He discovered that Henry Cavendish’s “inflammable air” can be found in water/

5. Stoichiometry
These experiments included one of Lavoisier’s quantitive chemical experiments.
He concluded that every element mixture has the same amount of elements from when it started.
His experiments proved the law of the conservation to be true

6. Later Life as a Chemist
Lavoisier discovered that water is made from Hydrogen and Oxygen and that air is made from Nitrogen and Oxygen
Lavoisier published his first textbook called Education Treaties on Chemistry
Came up with the title for Hydrogen, meaning “water-former”

7. Political Downfall Became a tax collector at a young age
Becoming a tax collector made him a member of Ferme Generale, which lead many people to dislike him
Lavoisier was arrested because of people’s dislikes about him and his actions.

8. Legacy He came up with a system that is still used today.
He has made many contributions to science, including home and school
Lavoisier died on May 8, 1794 by guillotine

9. Work Cited http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Lavoisier.html