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Antoine Lavoisier
( 1743 - 1794 )

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French polymath Antoine Lavoisier corresponded with Joseph Priestley, demolished phlogiston theory, named oxygen, pioneered quantitative chemistry and lost his head to the guillotine at the height of the French Revolution for his alleged crimes as a tax-farmer.

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