Can France claim the first periodic table? Probably not, but a French Geology Professor made a significant advance towards it, even though at the time few people were aware of it. Alexandre Béguyer de ...

Many scientists worked on the problem of organizing the elements, but Dmitri Mendeleev published his first version of the periodic table in 1869, and is most often credited as its inventor. Since then ...

Research on moscovium and nihonium shows they are more reactive than flerovium and subject to notable relativistic effects, ...

Scientists have discovered a new way of creating superheavy elements by firing supercharged ion beams at dense atoms. The ...

The Period Table of Endangered Elements presents elements facing ... Recently, Chemistry Solutions caught up with Michael Dayah, creator of ptable.com — one of the first online periodic tables. We ...

The underlying reason for these trends is electron configurations of atoms. The first periodic table to become generally accepted was that of the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869: he ...

However, the first scientific discovery of an element ... The zigzag, staircase, line in the diagram of the periodic table above separates the metals, on the left, from non-metals, on the right.

Mrs Roberts: At its simplest, the periodic table is all the different elements arranged together in a chart. A Russian scientist called Dmitri Mendeleev produced one of the first practical ...