Who is the farther of Chemistry?

Question

I have heard that the real farther is Jabir Ibn Haiyan. I did some research and I found that this is true but is it really?

I heard that it was Jabir Ibn Haiyan but there seem to be many others. He may have been because I belive he isn't the farther of modern chemistry but maybe of Chemistry before it became what it is today because he lived back in the Dark ages.

Answer 1

The term is "Father of Chemistry" has been given variously to many different men, including Robert Boyle (ideal gas laws), Antoine Lavoisier (conservation of mass), John Dalton (atomic theory), Dmitri Mendeleev (periodic table), Joseph Priestly (gas purification).

The truth is, chemistry has been a developing science since ancient times. The word Chemistry comes to us through Greek from ancient Egyptian; the Arabs learned alchemy from the Greeks. The modern science of chemistry is credited to have begun with the publication of Robert Boyle's "The Sceptical Chymist", (1661) in which the scientific method was applied to the field of study of chemical reactions for the sake of understanding and manipulating them.

Jabir Ibn Hayyan (aka Geber) was certainly the eminent alchemist of his time, but to credit him as "father of chemistry" when he was in the middle of a long line of alchemists, distinguished for his accomplishments but not his revolution of the field (it was still fundamentally alchemy) is unfair, particluarly because he clung to the belief in Aristotlean "elements" (earth/air/water/fire) and attempted to fit his observations into that belief. His influence and lasting impact are without a doubt important, but he still did not revolutionize the science in the way that occurred in the 17th and 18th centuries (and 20th, with the development of quantum mechanics).

Answer 2

Anton Lavosier is considered the father of modern chemistry in Europe and USA because he determined the Law of Conservation of Mass.

Answer 3

Other answers are also good. But the true father was Antoine Laurent Lavoisier.He brought the modern naming methods as to how to call compounds. He weighed everything and so introduced oxygen as the oxidizer of everything, and put an end to the phlogiston theory of combustion.

Answer 4

I had heard that the father of modern chemistry was Dimitry Mendeleev