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History of the Periodic

Table Timeline

1649 — 1829. 1864

1869 1870 1895

1898 1911 1911

1913 1940 1862

Hennig Brand discovered

Phosphorus.
— Johann Dobereiner discovered
the halogen triad and the alkali
metal triad.

— The first periodic table was

created by A.E.Beguyer de
Chancourtois. He assembled the
table by transcribing a list of the
elements positioned on a
cylinder in terms of increasing
atomic weight.
 — Newlands published his
version of the periodic table and
proposed the Law of Octaves
(by analogy with the seven
intervals of the musical scale).

— Russian Dmitri Mendeleev

published his periodic table,
eventually becoming the “father
of the periodic table.”

— Lothar Meyer published

his periodic table.
 — Lord Rayleigh discovered
argon, a new gaseous element
that was chemically inert

— William Ramsey helped to

establish the "zero" group (for
“zero valency”) and predicted
the future discovery of the
element neon.
 — Ernest Rutherford
published studies of the
scattering of alpha particles by
heavy atom nuclei which led to
the determination of nuclear
charge.

— A. van den Broek

established that the atomic
weight of an element was
approximately equal to the
charge on an atom. This charge,
later termed the atomic number,
could be used to number the
elements within the periodic
table.

— Henry Moseley discovered

that the ordering of the
wavelengths of the x-ray
emissions of the elements
coincided with the ordering of
the elements by atomic number.
This discovery established that
“the properties of the elements
varied periodically with atomic
number,” not atomic weight,
which had been previously
accepted under periodic law.

— Glenn Seaborg discovered

plutonium and the transuranic
elements from 94 to 102. His
findings represented the last
(and most recent) changes to the
periodic table.