Antoine+Lavoisier

Antoine Lavoisier was a remarkable man. He was a french nobleman who was very well educated in the areas of chemistry and biology. He named both Oxygen and Hydrogen. He named Oxygen after the sharp taste that it gave off (Oxy means sharp in latin). He also named Hydrogen because it combined with Oxygen to create water. Lavoisier compiled the first list of elements which Dmitri Mendeleev later organized. This man was remarkable, he also refiend chemical nomenclature which renamed all the elements and chemicals that they knew of and put the scientific names that they have now. Also, at the height of the French Revolution he was accused by Jean-Paul Marat of selling adulterated tobacco and other crimes and Antoine was eventually guillotined for these crimes.