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History of chemistry, present since the origins of humanity.
They will make a difference, in what today is to chemistry, Antoine Lavoiser with quantitative experimentation, Jhon Dalton with the atomic theory, Dimitri Mendeleyev with the first periodic table and J.J. Thomson with the discovery of the electron.
The origin of the chemistry goes back to our ancestors when they watched natural phenomena. Such as the fermentation of the wine or the wood transforming to ashes by fire.For centuries the chemistry was like an art, but the ancient Greek philosophers began to investigate the composition and transformation of matter. In this century, there were two theories, that all matter was composed of fire, air, earth and water; and the theory of Democritus, which proposes the composition of matter by particles: atoms.
But the alchemy was the very basis of modern chemistry. The desire of man to get gold or the elixir of eternal life, led to the creation of the chemistry. Creating and storing a large number of reports, which later will help give an explanation supported and scientific experiments.