Father of Chemistry “Scientists“
| Subject | Name | Reason |
| Father of Early Chemistry Father of Chemistry | Jabir ibn Hayyan (Geber) | Introduced the experimental method to alchemy, circa 815. |
| Father of Modern Chemistry | Antoine Lavoisier | Book: Elements of Chemistry (1787) |
| Father of Modern Chemistry | Robert Boyle | Book: The Sceptical Chymist (1661) |
| Father of Modern Chemistry | Jöns Berzelius | developed chemical nomenclature in the 1800s |
| Father of Modern Chemistry | John Dalton | revived atomic theory |
| Father of Early Atomic Theory | Democritus. | founded atomism in cosmology |
| Father of Atomic Theory Father of Modern Atomic Theory | John Dalton | first to propose the atom as a building block of matter |
| Father of Modern Atomic Theory | Father Roger Boscovich | described what came to be known as modern atomic theory, about a century before others formalized the theory |
| Father of Nuclear Chemistry | Otto Hahn | Book: Applied Radiochemistry (1936) first person to split the atom (1938) Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering nuclear fission (1944) |
| Father of the Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev | arranged all the known elements in order of increasing atomic weight, according to periodic properties (1869) |
| Father of Physical Chemistry | Hermann von Helmholtz | for his theories on thermodynamics, conservation of energy and electrodynamics |
| Father of Physical Chemistry Founder of Chemical Thermodynamics | Willard Gibbs | published the first unified body of theorems describing thermodynamics |
The alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan, from a 15th century European portrait of Geber, Codici Ashburnhamiani 1166.
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier is known as the Father of Modern Chemistry.