Jabir ibn Hayyan (born 722 CE died #15CE) The Arab world has many famous chemists in its history, but the person who is known as the founder of chemistry is probably Jabir ibn Hayyan. He is most well known for the beginning of the production of sulphuric acid. He also built a set of scales which changed the way in which chernists weighed iterns in a laboratory: his scales could weigh iterns over 6,000 times smaller than kilogram a 28