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

Antoine Lavoisier is often called the father of modern chemistry. He organized the elements known in his time into four groups: gases, nonmetals, metals, and earths. Dmitri Mendeleev later developed a periodic table, but the four-group classification points to Lavoisier.

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