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Stuff You Missed in History Class

The Explosive Career of Antoine Lavoisier

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.223.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2014

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier 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. He also was smack dab in the middle of the French Revolution.

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Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HouseofWorks.com.

0:36.7

Hello and welcome to the podcast.

0:44.7

I'm Holly Fry and I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

0:46.7

And the really interesting thing about the subject of today's podcast is how many labels he gets.

0:52.7

So if you look up any biography on him, the intro will absolutely include some combination of the words

0:59.3

chemist, biologist, geologist, physiologist, economist.

1:02.7

He even held a law degree that he never practiced law.

1:05.7

But at the end of the day, this particular figure is most often referred to as a father of modern chemistry.

1:11.7

And we refer to this person who is Antoine Lvoisier,

1:15.7

before during our episode on Sophie Blanchard and the ballooning craze.

1:19.7

But he definitely deserves his own podcast because he was instrumental in transitioning the field of chemistry from one that was still back in alchemical thinking

1:29.7

and the combination of science and magic and sort of experimenting in that arena to a much more serious and systematic way to analyze and understand the world around us.

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