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Title: Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier

Description: Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794), French chemist, biologist, scientist and noble, the father of modern chemistry, stipulating the first version of the law of conservation of mass, abolishing the phlogiston theory and largely contributed to the construction of the metric system; he compiled and wrote the first extensive list of elements, naming hydrogen and oxygen and largely reformed chemical nomenclature; he is shown with his wife, Marie-Anne Pierette Paulze (1758-1836), in a 1788 painting by Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825);