Tax Farmer

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Antoine Lavoisier

Chemist · 1743 – 1794

Antoine Lavoisier was the French chemist who discovered oxygen's role in combustion, proved the conservation of mass, established the metric system of elements, and effectively founded modern chemistry — before being guillotined in the French Revolution.

Discovering oxygen's role in combustion
Law of conservation of mass