Important Scientists

He's known for for the "Boyle Law" which describes the relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of gas.

His general great accomplishment in chemistry is known to be the fact that he changed the science from a qualitative to a quantitative one. Lavoisier is most noted for his discovery of the role oxygen plays in combustion. He recognized and named oxygen and hydrogen, and he also was the first to establish that sulfur was an element rather than a compound. Also discovered that although matter may change its form or shape, its mass will always stay the same

He discovered oxygen, and identified molybdenum, tungsten, barium, hydrogen, and chlorine. He also discovered organic acids tartaric, oxalic, uric, lactic, and citric, as well as hydrofluoric, hydrocyanic, and arsenic acids.

Joseph is usually credited for discovering oxygen, having isolated it in gaseous states, although Carl Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier also claimed to discovered oxygen. Also invented soda water, his writing on electricity,and his discovery in many "airs" gases.

His largest accomplishments was disproving Berthollet with the law of definite proportions, which is sometimes also known as Proust's Law.

John Dalton is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory, and his research in colorblindness.

He made fundamental contributions to the field of analytical geometry and was a pioneer in the investigations of cathode rays that led eventually to the discovery of the electron.

He estimated the mass of cathode rays by measuring the heat generated when the rays hit a thermal junction and comparing this with the magnetic deflection of the rays. His experiments suggested not only that cathode rays were over 1000 times lighter than the hydrogen atom, but also that their mass was the same in whichever type of atom they came from. He concluded that the rays were composed of very light, negatively charged particles which were a universal building block of atoms.

Perrin showed that cathode rays were of negative electric charge nature. He computed Avogadro's number through several methods. He explained solar energy by the thermonuclear reactions of hydrogen

Crookes identified the first known sample of helium. Then he turned his attention to the newly discovered phenomenon of radioactivity.