Question

Who is known as the "father of modern chemistry” because he first organized all known elements into four different groups?

Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
Antoine Lavoisier
Dmitri Mendeleev

Answer 1

Antoine Lavoisier. He is called the "father of modern chemistry" and in his 1789 Traité élémentaire de chimie he organized known substances into four groups (gases, metals, nonmetals, and earths).