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'''Antoine Laurent Lavoisier''' was one of the key founders of modern [[chemistry]].<ref name="a">{{Nuttall|Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent}}</ref> He was born in [[Paris]] in 1742.<ref name="a"/> To pursue his research he accepted the post of farmer-general in 1769, introduced in 1776 improvements in manufacturing gunpowder, discovered the composition of the air and the nature of [[oxygen]], applied the principles of chemistry to agriculture, and indicated the presence and action of these principles in various other domains of scientific inquiry; called to account for his actions as farmer-general, one in particular “putting water in the tobacco,” and condemned to the [[guillotine]]; he in vain begged for a fortnight's respite to finish some experiments, “the axe must do its work”<ref name="a"/> He died in 1794.<ref name="a"/>

'''Antoine Laurent Lavoisier''' was one of the key founders of modern [[chemistry]].<ref name="a">{{Nuttall|Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent}}</ref> He was born in [[Paris]] in 1742.<ref name="a"/> To pursue his research he accepted the post of farmer-general in 1769, introduced in 1776 improvements in manufacturing gunpowder, discovered the composition of the air and the nature of [[oxygen]], applied the principles of chemistry to agriculture, and indicated the presence and action of these principles in various other domains of scientific inquiry; called to account for his actions as farmer-general, one in particular “putting water in the tobacco,” and condemned to the [[guillotine]]; he in vain begged for a fortnight's respite to finish some experiments, “the axe must do its work”<ref name="a"/> He died in 1794.<ref name="a"/>

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