This man was accused of imprisoning Paris and preventing air circulation with the wall he had built around the city.
This man was accused of imprisoning Paris and preventing air circulation with the wall he had built around the city. With Pierre Laplace he showed that respiration is a form of combustion and that water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen, thus establishing the basic rules of chemical combination. In his main work, Traite elementaire de chemie, he listed all elements known at the time, but just five years later his feud with Marat led him to be guillotined. FTP, who was this French chemist who named oxygen and used it to disprove the phlogiston theory?
This man was accused of imprisoning Paris and preventing air circulation with the wall he had built around the city.
Antoine Lavoisier