MSU Gallery of Chemists' Photo-Portraits and Mini-Biographies
Portrait: 69
Location - Floor: First - Zone: Room 136 - Wall: North - Sequence: 3
Source: Kedzie Collection
Sponsor: Gerald T. Babcock
A French scientist with one of the best minds of his era, he is regarded as the father of modern chemistry. His quantitative experiments established that combustion involves combination of a burning substance with oxygen; this led to the overthrow of the long-held incorrect phlogiston theory. He also improved the manufacture of gunpowder, promoted scientific agriculture, and was in part responsible for establishing the metric system. As a consequence of his connection with a private company used by the government to collect taxes, he was guillotined.
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