The argument that Lavoisier was guillotined because he was a scientist is so hilarious, it amazes me how people still fall for it so easily.

Like, if it was really the case, why and how did all the other men of science manage to keep their head then? Magic?

Drawing Lavoisier on my chemistry notebook 👌✨✨✨

Portrait of Monsieur de Lavoisier and his Wife, chemist Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze (1788), Metropolitan Museum of Art:

-De Lavoisier was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and greatly influenced the history of chemistry and biology.

-He recognized and named oxygen (1778) and hydrogen (1783) & wrote the law of conservation of mass in 1783.

-Lavoisier helped construct the metric system, wrote the first extensive list of elements, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature. 

-He predicted the existence of silicon (1787) and discovered that, although matter may change its form or shape, its mass always remains the same.

- At the height of the French Revolution, he was charged with tax fraud and selling adulterated tobacco, and was guillotined.

Interesting story behind David’s Lavoisier painting. When I saw it I really liked how austere it is. The expanse of grey wall and red table cloth.

But it turns out it was originally going to be much more elaborate, with Marie wearing a massive fashionable hat. By the time it was completed at the end of 1788, though, the painting was significantly toned down, focusing more on their scientific achievements and downplaying their status as wealthy tax collectors. The added tablecloth hides a gilded table below.

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Le Lavoisier - Molenbeek mars 2024

POTLUCK FRITTATA & LAVOISIER

Le chimiste Antoine Lavoisier et Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, son épouse et collaboratrice, par Jacques Louis David, 1788.

TIL:  Lavoisier married a 13 year old (he was 28). This was an improvement from 50 something who wanted to marry her.

Look. Look. I understand that there are different cultural customs, I really do. I know noblewomen often married young (to put it mildly). I don’t want to be ethnocentric about this. But I need to research Lavoisiers for a class, and they are hailed as a great example of scientist spouses that worked together (= wife helping her husband and being involved in research), which was an important change in late 18c, and I just wanted to read about that, ok? But now I can’t get this fact out of my head, even though I know she was older when they did their work together. But I just can’t stop thinking about this.  

MWW Artwork of the Day (11/21/22) Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748-1825) Antoine-Laurent and Marie-Anne Lavoisier (1788) Oil on canvas, 256 x 195 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Charles Wrightsman)

This is one of the grandest portraits of the eighteenth century, painted in 1788 when the thirty-one-year-old David was at the peak of his powers and had become the self-appointed standard-bearer of French Neoclassicism. Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier is known today as the founder of modern chemistry, for his pioneering studies of oxygen, gunpowder, and the chemical composition of water. Lavoisier's "habit noir", as opposed to the colorful suits of courtiers, was the customary, English-inspired dress of men who owed their rank to a profession or purchased office. Mme Lavoisier's muslin gown is characteristic of fashionable women of her day, neither exaggerated nor excessively modest. Both figures are dressed formally, and are not shown in "déshabille", as was the eighteenth-century convention for artists and scientists at work.

David is the featured artist in this MWW gallery/album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.727184920720213&type=3

8 mai 1794 : exécution du chimiste Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier ➽ http://bit.ly/Antoine-Lavoisier Après avoir terminé ses humanités avec éclat, il conçut tant de goût pour les sciences mathématiques et physiques, qu’il résolut de s’y consacrer tout entier

rumo aos pedaços para ao pé dos meus amores a todos eles que me arranham a pele, puxam-me a língua rasgam-me o corpo aos pedaços

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Fritz Haber - The Unlucky Patriot(Chemistry-2:essay)

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Fritz Haber (December 9, 1868 – January 29, 1934) was a physical chemist and electrochemist from Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). He is a Protestant converted from Jewry. He is sometimes referred to as the ``Father of Chemical Weapons'' because of his leadership in the use of various poison gases, including chlorine, during World War I. 　

This person seems to have been an engineering chemist, in contrast to Lavoisier, who was a purely scientific chemist. chemical engineering. Haber was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for the synthesis of ammonia (NH3) by combining nitrogen (N) and hydrogen (H) under high temperature and pressure conditions using an iron catalyst. ”. In a sense, this is an amazing technology, because in the natural world, leguminous plants have been able to artificially fix nitrogen in the air in cooperation with root nodule bacteria. (Haber-Bosch method)

And, as I mentioned earlier, Haber is also involved in the development of murder weapons... poison gas. You could say that he abandoned Judaism, became a Protestant, and was a patriot to the extent that he produced poison gas for the army.

However, Haber's destiny is greatly changed by the madman Adolf Hitler. In fact, those who renounced Judaism "don't call themselves Jews," but Hitler also tried to harm Haber. Haber fleeing out of Germany... tragic. Haber, who gave his life for his homeland, is treated coldly. Bosch, who was his collaborator, admonishes Hitler, saying, ``If you continue this persecution, excellent Jewish scientists will leave Germany,'' but this madman won't listen. As Bosch said, Einstein and other scientists defected. Haber died in Basel, Switzerland.

"Is this God's punishment for creating poison gas?" … Punishment of which god, if any? ?

In fact, Haber created poison gas weapons, and Einstein's theory contributed to the success of the atomic bomb. All of these are theoretical, engineering, and real-world applications.