Who among the following laid the foundation of chemical science by establishing two important laws of chemical combination?

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  1. Ernest Rutherford
  2. Democritus
  3. Joseph L. Proust
  4. Antoine L. Lavoisier

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Option 4 : Antoine L. Lavoisier
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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was a French Chemist who developed the two important laws of chemical combinations and co-authored the modern system for naming chemical substances.

He is known as ‘The Father of Modern Chemistry’

Additional information:

  1. Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand born physicist who gave the famous ‘Rutherford Model of the atom’ which explains that the atom contains very small charges nucleus (contains most of the mass of atom) and orbited by loss mass electrons.
  2. Democritus was a Greek philosopher and scientist who observed that a cone or a pyramid has one-third the volume of a cylinder or a prism with the same base and height.
  3. Joseph Louis Proust was a French chemist who gave the law of constant composition.

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