Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794) - priority of measurement of oxygen consumption during physical activity
2015
Abstract
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier was French chemist, who discovered composition of air, composition of water, created first modern list of elements, and besides of several other priority discoveries together with his colleague A. Seguin performed the first experiments with the measurement of oxygen consumption during physical activity.
He is regarded as "father of modern chemistry". Despite of all his scientific merits he was executed by guillotine during French revolution.