The periodic table merges scientific inquiry, international politics, hero worship, desires for structure and desires for credit. Formally, the modern periodic table is a systematic arrangement of the ...

The periodic table stares down from the walls of just about every chemistry lab. The credit for its creation generally goes to Dimitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist who in 1869 wrote out the known ...

The periodic table of elements, or Mendeleev’s table, was created in 1869 by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. This table organizes all known chemical elements by their atomic number, or the number of ...

A century and a half ago, a Russian chemistry professor published a classification of all the known elements, organized by atomic weight. Today, the system that he created for his students — plus some ...

At the middle of the 19th century, 63 chemical elements were known to science. Before Mendeleev’s discovery, attempts at arranging them in some logical way were made by Johann Doebereiner (1829), ...

Who made the first periodic table? Other scientists had previously identified periodicity of elements, but on March 6, 1869 Dmitri Mendeleev (photo) presented the first periodic table. Mendeleev was a ...

Credit for the periodic table of the elements generally goes to Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, but a specialist in the history and philosophy of chemistry says the Russian chemist probably peeked at the ...

Science Classrooms Across the Nation (WHTM) — February 7 is National Periodic Table Day, when we celebrate the efforts of scientists over the centuries to figure out how different elements are related ...

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Kelling Donald receives funding from The National Science Foundation, and the Dreyfus Foundation. The periodic table merges scientific inquiry, international politics, hero worship, desires for ...