What scientist came up with the law of definite proportions?
1 Answer
Apr 22, 2014
This law is accredited to a French chemist, Joseph Proust. It is often also called Proust's Law or the Law of Constant Composition.
There is quite a nice timeline in the RSC website to put this Law in context:
http://www.rsc.org/chemsoc/timeline/pages/1799.html