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Jabbir bin hayyan father of al chemist
Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (Arabic: أبو موسى جابر بن حيّان, variously called al-Ṣūfī, al-Azdī, al-Kūfī, or al-Ṭūsī), is considered the father of Arab chemistry and one of the founders of modern pharmacy. He was known to the Europeans as Geber. He was born in the city of Tus in the province of Khorasan in Iran in 721 AD. His father Hayyan Al-Azdi was an “Attar” (druggist or pharmacist) from the Arabian Azd tribe in Yemen, who resided in the city of Kufa in Iraq during the rule of the Umayyads
Jabir Ibn Hayyan was a polymath who developed science and was responsible for scientific experiments and chemical processes like distillation, oxidisation, filtration, crystallisation, and many more. He also discovered Sulphuric acid and Citric acid among other things. In the eighth century, he was one of the most noteworthy philosophers. Aside from this, he was an alchemist, astronomer, engineer, physician, and physicist and became known as the father of chemistry.
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