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[[File:Torus.png|thumb|175px|link=Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)| [[Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution; 26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794) was a French nobleman and chemist central to the 18th-century chemical revolution who had a profound influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
• ... that '''[[Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|Antoine Lavoisier]]''' played a key role in changing chemistry from a qualitative science to a quantitative science, discovered the role oxygen plays in combustion, helped construct the metric system, wrote the first extensive list of elements, and was executed as a traitor during the French Revolution?


Lavoisier was a powerful member of a number of aristocratic councils, and an administrator of the Ferme générale. The Ferme générale was one of the most hated components of the Ancien Régime because of the profits it took at the expense of the state, the secrecy of the terms of its contracts, and the violence of its armed agents. All of these political and economic activities enabled him to fund his scientific research.
• ... that mathematician '''[[J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|John Henry Constantine "Henry" Whitehead]]''' (1904–1960) was one of the founders of [[Homotopy theory (nonfiction)|homotopy theory]], which originated in [[Algebraic topology (nonfiction)|algebraic topology]] as a systematic study of situations in which maps come with homotopies between them; and that J.J. Rotman, in his book on algebraic topology, as a tribute to Whitehead's intellect, stated: "There is a canard that every textbook of algebraic topology either ends with the definition of the Klein bottle or is a personal communication to J. H. C. Whitehead."?


At the height of the [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]], he was accused by Jean-Paul Marat of selling adulterated tobacco and of other crimes, and was guillotined on May 8, 1794, a year after Marat's death.
• ... that the book '''''[[Polenta and You|Polenta and You: The Untold Story of the Niger Polenta Forgeries]]''''' describes the differences between harmless polenta and radioactive yellowcake?


<br><br>-''Lavoisier'' by Jacques-Léonard Maillet. Stone, ca. 1853. 5th statue from Pavillon Colbert to Pavillon Sully, Cour Napoléon in the Louvre.]]
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• ... that mathematician '''[[J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|John Henry Constantine "Henry" Whitehead]]''' (1904–1960) was one of the founders of [[Homotopy theory (nonfiction)|homotopy theory]], which originated in [[Algebraic topology (nonfiction)|algebraic topology]] as a systematic study of situations in which maps come with homotopies between them; and that J.J. Rotman, in his book on algebraic topology, as a tribute to Whitehead's intellect, stated: "There is a canard that every textbook of algebraic topology either ends with the definition of the Klein bottle or is a personal communication to J. H. C. Whitehead."?

Latest revision as of 09:22, 8 May 2024

• ... that Antoine Lavoisier played a key role in changing chemistry from a qualitative science to a quantitative science, discovered the role oxygen plays in combustion, helped construct the metric system, wrote the first extensive list of elements, and was executed as a traitor during the French Revolution?

• ... that mathematician John Henry Constantine "Henry" Whitehead (1904–1960) was one of the founders of homotopy theory, which originated in algebraic topology as a systematic study of situations in which maps come with homotopies between them; and that J.J. Rotman, in his book on algebraic topology, as a tribute to Whitehead's intellect, stated: "There is a canard that every textbook of algebraic topology either ends with the definition of the Klein bottle or is a personal communication to J. H. C. Whitehead."?

• ... that the book Polenta and You: The Untold Story of the Niger Polenta Forgeries describes the differences between harmless polenta and radioactive yellowcake?

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