Arab scholar Jabir ibn Hayyan is famous for his ‘invention’ of the Philosophers’ Stone – purportedly a substance which could turn ordinary metals into gold. He never found such a substance – but he ...

The modern classification of elements as we know it today, of both metals and nonmetals, has its seeds in Hayyan’s chemical nomenclature. He is credited with the invention of processes such as ...

JABIR IBN HAYYAN.—In a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1923, vol. 16 (section of the History of Medicine), p. 46, Mr. E. J. Holmyard has collected the information we possess ...

UNESCO and the 1001 Inventions organization will launch a new educational initiative celebrating the 8th century polymath Jabir ibn Hayyan as part of the 2019 International Year of the Periodic Table ...

TEHRAN -- A TV series about prominent Iranian scientist Jabir ibn Hayyan will be broadcasted for Azeri viewers on Sahar, an international Iranian TV channel available on satellite, in near future.

Over a thousand children visited the Royal Society of Chemistry last week to learn about 8th century pioneer Jabir ibn Hayyan, and how he helped lay the foundations for modern-day chemistry. Allow ...

MR. HOLMYARD in the introduction to his book remarks justly that “the investigation of the original sources of Arabic chemistry has scarcely yet been attempted.” The most important work was that of ...

Jabir ibn Hayyan (721-815): He is considered the father of Arab chemistry Ibn Rushd (1126-1198): Wrote several books on philosophy, medicine, logic and jurisprudence. Ibn al-Nafis (1213-1288): ...