<P> Lavoisier made many fundamental contributions to the science of chemistry . Following Lavoisier's work, chemistry acquired a strict quantitative nature, allowing reliable predictions to be made . The revolution in chemistry which he brought about was a result of a conscious effort to fit all experiments into the framework of a single theory . He established the consistent use of chemical balance, used oxygen to overthrow the phlogiston theory, and developed a new system of chemical nomenclature . Lavoisier was beheaded during the French Revolution . </P> <P> In 1802, French American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, who learned manufacture of gunpowder and explosives under Antoine Lavoisier, founded a gunpowder manufacturer in Delaware known as E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company . The French Revolution forced his family to move to the United States where du Pont started a gunpowder mill on the Brandywine River in Delaware . Wanting to make the best powder possible, du Pont was vigilant about the quality of the materials he used . For 32 years, du Pont served as president of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, which eventually grew into one of the largest and most successful companies in America . </P> <P> Throughout the 19th century, chemistry was divided between those who followed the atomic theory of John Dalton and those who did not, such as Wilhelm Ostwald and Ernst Mach . Although such proponents of the atomic theory as Amedeo Avogadro and Ludwig Boltzmann made great advances in explaining the behavior of gases, this dispute was not finally settled until Jean Perrin's experimental investigation of Einstein's atomic explanation of Brownian motion in the first decade of the 20th century . </P> <P> Well before the dispute had been settled, many had already applied the concept of atomism to chemistry . A major example was the ion theory of Svante Arrhenius which anticipated ideas about atomic substructure that did not fully develop until the 20th century . Michael Faraday was another early worker, whose major contribution to chemistry was electrochemistry, in which (among other things) a certain quantity of electricity during electrolysis or electrodeposition of metals was shown to be associated with certain quantities of chemical elements, and fixed quantities of the elements therefore with each other, in specific ratios . These findings, like those of Dalton's combining ratios, were early clues to the atomic nature of matter . </P>

Who are the persons involved in the beginning of chemistry