TIMELINE OF

Elements
Significant Discoveries and Synthesis

14B Light elements were formed

because of Big Bang such as
Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium,
YEARS AGO and Beryllium, among other
elements.

Amateur alchemist Hennig

Brand attempted to create
a Philosopher’s stone that
1669
would turn metal into pure
gold but instead, he
discovered Phosphorus.

1789 Antoine Lavoisier (father of

modern chemistry) publishes
a list of 33 elements “simple
substances” and
categorized to gases,
metals, nonmetals, and
earths.

1809
Around 47 elements were
discovered and scientists
began to see patterns in the
characteristics.

1863
English chemist John
Newlands divided the then
discovered 56 elements into
11 groups based on their
characteristics.

Russian
Mendeleev
chemist Dimitri
started
arranging the periodic tables
1869
by their atomic mass and
left spaces open in his
periodic table for
undiscovered elements.

1886 French physicist Antoine

Becquerel first discovered
radioactivity.

Sir William Ramsay and Lord

Rayleigh
noble gases.
discovered the 1894

CONTINUATION
 1898 Marie and Pierre Curie
started working on the
radiation of Uranium and
Thorium and subsequently
discovered Radium and
Polonium.

Henry Moseley, using X-rays,

demonstrated that
number of protons (atomic
the 1913
number) as suggested by van
den Broek instead of atomic
mass is the correct basis for
ordering the elements.

1932 James Chadwick, confirmed

the existence and
determined the mass of the
neutron.

1937
E. G. Sagre and C. Perrier
produced and discovered the
first Artificial element,
Technetium.

1939
Marguerite Perey,
discovered the radioactive
alkaline Francium.

Edwin McMillan and Philip

Abelson discovered the
latest element in the periodic
1940
table, Neptunium.

1998- Elements
moscovium,
flerovium,
livermorium,
tennessine, and oganesson

2010
created by a Russian-
American collaboration of Y.
Oganessian and Ken Moody

Latest synthetic elements

Nihonium created by Kasuke
Morita
2012

References
https://axial.acs.org/cross-disciplinary-
concepts/celebrate-iypt-2019-with-the-history-of-the-
periodic-table-of-chemical-elements
http://murov.info/timelines.htm
https://www.lenntech.com/periodic/history/history-
periodic-table.htm

DHILLON, Jashandeep S.
11-Bl. Therese