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JOSEPH PRIESTLY
Joseph was the man who discovered Oxygen. One of the founding fathers of chemistry. He also accidentally brought us soda water. -
ANTOINE DE LAVOISIER
The chemistry Lavoisier studied as a student was not a subject particularly noted for conceptual clarity or theoretical rigour.
Lavoisier disproved the phlogiston theory. He demonstrated that there was an element called oxygen that played a major role in combustion. -
HENRY CAVENDISH
Henry was a natural philosopher, the greatest experimental and theoretical English chemist and physicist of his age.
he was distinguished for great accuracy and precision in researches into the composition of atmospheric air, the properties of different gases. -
Jacobus Henricus
A highly influential theoretical chemist of his time, van 't Hoff was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
He was a Dutch physical chemist. He is also widely considered one of the founders of physical chemistry as the discipline is known today. -
ROBERT BOYLE
-best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas
