Is Antoine Lavoisier the greatest chemist of all time?

No love for Dmitri Mendeleev? I'd say the legacy of his work is used on a regular basis by every chemist today: Plus, there's a pretty great myth that he came up with the 40% standard strength of vodka. read more

” Such a conversation falls right in my wheelhouse, and in honour of the lads at NChem, I am going to write this post in English. read more

Lavoisier, together with Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Claude-Louis Berthollet, and Antoine François de Fourcroy, submitted a new program for the reforms of chemical nomenclature to the Academy in 1787, for there was virtually no rational system of chemical nomenclature at this time. read more