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[What went throughLavoisier, Marie-Anne the mind of AntoineLavoisier, AntoineLavoisierLavoisier, Antoinenew laboratory right before the guillotine descended upon his neck, cutting off so much promise as one of the founders of modern chemistry? We cannot help but wonder. Perhaps he was thinking about the experiments he would never get to carry out; maybe he was pondering why his efforts to fight the adulteration of tobacco or to found a Royal Commission on Agriculture had fallen short; or odds on, he was picturing his beautiful and intellectually stimulating wife and collaborator in the laboratoryLaboratoriesdifferent types of chemistry, Marie-Anne, who had steadfastly defended himLavoisier, Marie-Annedefense of husband to the last against the Jacobian steamroller. Lavoisier had the misfortune of being on the wrong side of a revolution that became highly radicalized after the Reign of Terror. Given the opportunity, he could have proffered so much more for the field that fueled both his passion and his marriage.]
Published: Jun 8, 2018
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