History of the Periodic Table a) b) c) d) Full Name and the years they lived Country they lived in What

ideas did they contribute or propose (suggest)? How did their idea help us develop the periodic table

Newlands a) John Alexander Reina Newlands. 26 November 1837 - 29 July 1898. b) London, Great Britain. c) He arranged all the elements known at the time into a table in order of relative atomic mass. While arranging them, John Newlands proposed his Law of Octaves in 1864. His Law of Octaves showed an element exhibits behavior similar to the eighth element preceding it. d) His proposal, for the first time, suggested the existence of periodicity as a chemical property of different elements.

Mendeleev a) Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev. 8 February 1834 2 February 1907. b) Russia c) Mendeleev realized that the physical and chemical properties of elements were related to their atomic mass in a 'periodic' way. d) His idea helped to arrange the elements so that groups of elements with similar properties fell into vertical columns in his table.

Meyer a) Julius Lothar von Meyer. August 19 1830 April 11 1895. b) Germany c) He showed that if the atomic weights are plotted as ordinates and the atomic volumes as abscissae, the curve obtained presents a series of maxima and minima, the most electro-positive elements appearing at the peaks of the curve in the order of their atomic weights. d) His idea helped in the periodic classification of the elements in the periodic table.

Reference

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