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Given Jabir's purported ties with both the Shi'ite Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq and the Barmakid family (who served the Abbasids as viziers), or with the Abbasid caliphs themselves, it has sometimes been thought plausible that Ḥayyān al-ʿAṭṭār ("Hayyan the Druggist"), a proto-Shi'ite activist who was fighting for the Abbasid cause in the ...
Jabir ibn Hayyan: Father of Chemistry; Ibn Khaldun: Father of Sociology, Historiography and Modern Economics. He is best known for his Muqaddimah. Ibn Sina(Avicenna): Widely regarded as the Father of Early Modern Medicine as well as the Father of Clinical Pharmacology. [10] His most famous work is the Canon of Medicine. [11]
Jabir ibn Aflah (1100–1150), astronomer and mathematician who invented torquetum; Jabir ibn Hayyan (died c. 806–816), alchemist and polymath, pioneer of organic chemistry; may also have been Persian; Jābir ibn Zayd (8th century), theologian and jurist; Al-Jawaliqi (1074–1144), grammarian and philologist
Ḥarbī al-Ḥimyarī (Arabic: حربي الحميري) is a semi-legendary Himyarite sage that occurs several times in the writings attributed to the Islamic alchemist Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (died c. 806−816). He is said there to have been one of Jabir's teachers, and to have been 463 years old when Jabir met him. [1]
Popularly known as the father of chemistry, Jabir's works contain the oldest known systematic classification of chemical substances, and the oldest known instructions for deriving an inorganic compound (sal ammoniac or ammonium chloride) from organic substances (such as plants, blood, and hair) by chemical means. [16]
These writings were falsely attributed to Jabir ibn Hayyan (died c. 806– 816, latinized as Geber), [1] an early alchemist of the Islamic Golden Age. The most important work of the Latin pseudo-Geber corpus is the Summa perfectionis magisterii ("The Height of the Perfection of Mastery"), which was likely written slightly before 1310.
Sulfur-mercury theory of metals: First attested in pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana's Sirr al-khalīqa ("The Secret of Creation", c. 750–850) and in the works attributed to Jabir ibn Hayyan (written c. 850–950), [16] the sulfur-mercury theory of metals would remain the basis of all theories of metallic composition until the eighteenth century. [17]
Jabir Ibn Hayyan (722–804), Persian-Arab chemist and alchemist; Clayton Heathcock (born 1936), American chemist; Philipp R. Heck, cosmochemist; Alan J. Heeger (1936–2023), 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry; Jan Baptist van Helmont (1579–1644), The founder of pneumatic chemistry; Dudley R. Herschbach (born 1932), American chemist, 1986 Nobel ...