Antoine-Laurent lavoisier, a famous French chemist, was called the father of modern chemistry by the late Buddha. Lavoisier's outstanding achievements in chemistry are largely due to his transformation from qualitative chemistry to quantitative chemistry. Lavoisier is famous for putting forward the theory of oxidation. He recognized and named oxygen (1778) and hydrogen (1783) and opposed the phlogiston theory.

Lavoisier helped to set up a measuring system, compiled the first detailed list of elements, and helped to reform chemical terminology. He predicted the existence of silicon, and was the first to establish the existence of silicon, and at the same time established that sulfur only contains one element, not a compound. He put forward a standardized nomenclature of chemistry and wrote the first modern chemistry textbook, Fundamentals of Chemistry.

He advocated and improved the quantitative analysis method, and used it to verify the law of conservation of mass, which he called "the law of immortality of matter". In order to explain the common chemical phenomenon of combustion, German doctor Starr put forward the phlogiston theory, which holds that the burning of substances in air is a process in which substances lose phlogiston and air gets phlogiston.

The phlogiston theory can explain some phenomena, so many chemists, including priestley and Scheler, support it. Priestley even called the oxygen he discovered "dephosphorized air" to explain that substances burn more violently in oxygen than in air. However, phlogiston theory has been difficult to explain the problem that metals become heavier after combustion.

Lavoisier's main achievements:

Lavoisier is a gifted boy at school. At the age of 20, he won an award from the French Academy of Sciences for his excellent writing on street lighting design in Paris. A few years later, 1768, he was elected as "honorary academician" of French Academy of Sciences.

His masterpiece, The Outline of Chemistry, marks the birth of modern chemistry. In this paper, lavoisier not only correctly described the phenomena of combustion and absorption, but also listed the exact names of chemical elements for the first time in history. The name is based on the fact that matter is made up of chemical elements.