Yount, Lisa.

Antoine Lavoisier : founder of modern chemistry / Lisa Yount. - Springfield, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1997. - 128 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. - Great minds of science .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-120) and index.

Profiles the life of the Frenchman who is considered the founder of modern chemistry and biochemistry, because of his discovery of oxygen and his work on combustion and respiration.

ISBN: 0894907859

LCCN: 96041296 /AC

Subjects--Personal Names:
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 --Juvenile literature.
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Chemists--Biography--Juvenile literature.--France
Chemists.

LC Class. No.: QD22.L4 / Y68 1997

Dewey Class. No.: 540/.92 B