CHEMIST

Jabir ibn Hayyan

721 - 815

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Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (Arabic: أَبو موسى جابِر بِن حَيّان, variously called al-Ṣūfī, al-Azdī, al-Kūfī, or al-Ṭūsī), died c. 806−816, is the purported author of a large number of works in Arabic, often called the Jabirian corpus. The c. 215 treatises that survive today mainly deal with alchemy and chemistry, magic, and Shi'ite religious philosophy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jabir ibn Hayyan has received more than 1,452,819 page views. His biography is available in 88 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Jabir ibn Hayyan is the 9th most popular chemist (up from 10th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Iran (down from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Iranian Chemist.

Jabir ibn Hayyan is most famous for his contributions to the field of chemistry. He is credited with inventing a number of substances including sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and aqua regia.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jabir ibn Hayyan ranks 9 out of 602. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev, Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Irène Joliot-Curie, Robert Boyle, and Amedeo Avogadro. After him are Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Svante Arrhenius, Fritz Haber, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Wilhelm Ostwald, and Otto Hahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 721, Jabir ibn Hayyan ranks 1. After him is Isma'il ibn Ja'far. Among people deceased in 815, Jabir ibn Hayyan ranks 1. After him is Mashallah ibn Athari.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Jabir ibn Hayyan ranks 14 out of 631. Before him are Ali Khamenei (1939), Darius III (-380), Harun al-Rashid (766), Ismail I (1487), Abu Nuwas (762), and Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865). After him are Esther (-600), Hassan-i Sabbah (1050), Hafez (1325), Ulugh Beg (1394), Cambyses II (-550), and Malik-Shah I (1055).

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Among CHEMISTS In Iran

Among chemists born in Iran, Jabir ibn Hayyan ranks 1. After him are Shahram Amiri (1978).

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