SYMHC Classics: The Explosive Career of Antoine Lavoisier

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 January 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Today we're revisiting the life of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, who was a chemist, biologist, geologist, physiologist, and economist. But at the end of the day, he's most often referred to as the father of modern chemistry.

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0:33.3	Happy Saturday.
0:34.8	Today we're going to talk about explosives,
0:36.7	or really an 18th century scientist known for his work with explosives,
0:41.2	which was Antoine Le Voisier.
0:43.2	And often called the father of modern chemistry,
0:45.4	Le Voisier's life was notable for his work actually across a variety of scientific disciplines.
0:50.2	He didn't only focus on making things blow up.
0:53.5	And he did all of this right in the middle of the French Revolution,
0:57.7	which makes his life sort of notable.
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