CHICAGO SECTION AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

摘要

Marie Anne Paulze Lavoisier led a remarkable life — from a privileged family, marrying Antoine Laurent Lavoisier at age 13, studying chemistry, English, art to help her husband, participating in his work, drawing the plates for his most important treatise, engraving them, losing her husband and father in one day to Jacobin terror, marrying (in a disastrous marriage) Count Rum-ford, another scientists, living on into the Empire. In the process of telling her story, we will learn a good bit about France at the time of the Revolution, and of M. Lavoisier's work on the foundations of modern chemistry. Mme. Lavoisier's accomplishments as an artist are traced through her work and letters in the Cornell University Libraries. Was she a chemist?