Periodic Table of the Elements similar chemical properties and increasing atomic

masses.
Early Attempts in Classifying the Elements  He noted that they appeared as repetition of similar
property for every eight element (Law of Octaves)
1. Hennig Brand
7. Julius Lothar Meyer
 Discovered through scientific inquiry the element
phosphorus  Realized that the properties such
as m.p., b.p., and chemical
2 Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner activities (volatility, malleability,
brittleness) vary in a roughly periodic way – rising
 Arranged the elements into sets falling, rising again as the atomic weight increases
of three known as triads  Devised a classification of elements into a table that
 Calcium, strontium, and barium accounted for the periodic variations (56 elements
 Chlorine, bromine and iodine 8. Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
 Lithium, sodium and potassium (Father of Modern Periodic
 Sulfur, selenium, tellurium Table)
 Chromium, manganese, and iron  Predicted the existence of
other elements
3. J.P. Cooke
 Provide gaps or spaces for
undiscovered elements
 Shows that similar relationships extended further
9. Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley
than the triads of the elements
 He grouped oxygen, sulfur, selenium and tellurium
 Arranged the elements
 Added fluorine and magnesium
according to increasing
atomic number
4. Leopold Glemin
 (39 elements were added on
 Published the first edition of the list)
his famous Handbook in
Old Periodic Law – the properties of elements are periodic
Chemistry, three tetrads and
functions of their atomic weights
even a pentad- nitrogen,
phosphorus, arsenic, antimony and bismuth (group
Modern Periodic Law – the properties of elements are
15)
periodic functions of their atomic number (electronic
configuration)
5. A. E. Beguyer de Chancourtois

Periodic Table – tabular arrangement of elements in order of

 The first person to make use of
increasing atomic number such that elements having similar
atomic weights to reveal that
behavior are grouped in vertical columns and used to predict
the elements were arranged
the electronic configuration of the elements.
according to their atomic weights with similar
elements occurring at regular intervals.
10. Glenn T. Seaborg
 He drew the elements as a continuous spiral around
a cylinder divided into 16 parts.  After co-discovering 10 new
 A list of elements was wrapped around a cylinder so elements, in 1944 he moved 14
that several sets of similar elements lined up, elements out of the main
creating the first geometric representation of the body of the periodic table to
periodic law their current location below the Lanthanide series.
These became known as the Actinide series.
6. John Alexander Reina Newlands

 Arranged the elements into sets

of eight called octaves based on