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Name: Antoine Lavoisier Birth: August 26, 1743 Death: May 8, 1794 Country of Origin: Paris, France Antoine Lavoisier was a French chemist, he was considered to have discover the element of oxygen after having understood the significance of the previous work done on it. He also figured out that oxygen is essential in combustion, rusting, and respiration. Lavoisier wrote “// Traité elémentaire de chimie” // what was said by many to be the first chemistry book. In this book he displayed chemical reactions, conservation of mass, and other pieces of chemistry that people had never bond together. He died by guillotine during the Terror period in France.
 * Date of Discovery: 1778, 1783**