Jabir Ibn Haiyan. http://www.famousmuslims.com/Jabir%20Ibn%20Haiyan.htm Seems there are many "Fathers of Chemistry," Robert Boyle being another. Antoine Lavoisier is known as the "Father of Modern Chemistry," but you didn't ask that. Dec 22 04, 12:19 AM

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Chemistry is a vast subject with a very wide scope of new discoveries and inventions. It has developed with equal contributions in all sectors of chemistry, so it is hard to name one person as the father of chemistry. However, for each field we have different people who got the title. Father of early chemistry - Geber Father(s) of modern chemistry: Antoine Lavoisier Robert Boyle Jöns Berzelius John Dalton Periodic table - Dmitri Mendeleev Physical chemistry: Hermann von Helmholtz Willard Gibbs