antoine lavoisier
- n French chemist known as the father of modern chemistry; discovered oxygen and disproved the theory of phlogiston (1743-1794)
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- Inside Wisconsin: There's more to the Institutes for Discovery than stem-cell research
There’s nothing new or even unexpected about the love-hate relationship between religion and science. The same Catholic Church that has often been a patron of the sciences – think Gregor Mendel and the study of genetics, or Antoine Lavoisier and modern chemistry – also found Galileo Galilei “gravely suspect of heresy” in 1633 for asserting Earth circled the sun.
Sept. 15, 2013 - Wisconsin State Journal