M0003816: Lavoisier in his laboratory

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Lavoisier in his laboratory

Photograph of a print publication of an illustration titled "Lavoisier in his laboratory." Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794) was a French chemist and is most noted for his discovery of the role oxygen plays in combustion. He recognized and named oxygen in 1778 and hydrogen in 1783.

27 March 1934

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8 x 11 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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