Antione Lavoisier and Dmitri Mendeleev

Here is some more information on Lavoisier that I thought you might find interesting...amoung other things he was guillotined in the French Revolution.

Also, as Lavoisier's major project is nomenclature in Chemistry, he is a predecesor of Dmitri Mendeleev, the architect of the periodic table. Here is a statue of Mendeleev in St. Petersburg, Russia. I particularly like this one as you can see his periodic table behind him:



Here is Mendeleev's original periodic table:



And, in case you need a reminder, here is the modern periodic table, which, you can see, is grounded in part in the names of the elements, many of which Lavoisier coined:



And, just in case you love the periodic table of the elements as much as I do, here is a short (and entertaining) radio program about it: The Wonder of Youth - Radiolab