The group was named after French scientist Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), the father of modern chemistry who disproved the Phlogiston theory of combustion.
Le Bugue owes part of its fame to the chemist and physician Jean Rey who discovered the Law of Conservation of Mass 200 years before Lavoisier.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Antoine Watteau | Antoine de Caunes | Antoine Brumel | Antoine Walker | Antoine Lavoisier | Marc-Antoine Charpentier | Antoine-Louis Barye | Marc Antoine | Louis Antoine de Bougainville | Antoine, Duke of Lorraine | Antoine Bourdelle | Antoine | Jacques Antoine | Antoine Guichenot | Antoine Grumbach | François-Antoine Devaux | Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay | Charles Antoine Lemaire | Antoine-Vincent Arnault | Antoine Predock | Antoine Louis Rouillé | Antoine Hamilton | Antoine Godeau | Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy | Antoine Claudet | Antoine Albeau | Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye | Paul-Antoine Léonard de Villefeix | Marc Antoine Auguste Gaudin |
Two examples of Dupré's famous medals are in honor of Lavoisier and Admiral Suffren.
He portrayed the revolution in ideas produced by Kant as being as important in its significnace as that produced by Descartes, Lavoisier and Copernicus.
From 1775–80 he studied physics and chemistry under Lavoisier and Berthollet in Paris, where he also got involved with the administration of saltpeter.
Joseph Proust's law of definite proportions and John Dalton's atomic theory branched from the discoveries of Antoine Lavoisier.
Antoine Lavoisier mentored the founder of the company, E. I. du Pont, more than 200 years ago.