The Periodic

Table: Putting
the Elements in
Order
Development of the
Periodic Table
A. Lavoisier’s
Classification

Antoine-Laurent de
Lavoisier
First Group: heat, light, and
gases such as oxygen and
nitrogen
Second Group: acid-making
elements
Third Group: metallic
elements
Fourth Group: earthly
elements
B. Dobereiner’s Triads

Several
elements have
similar
physical and
chemical
There is a
properties
numerical
pattern among
the atomic
Johann Wolfgang
Dobereiner masses of the
elements in
triads.
 C. De Chancourtois’ Telluric Helix

Alexander-Emile Beguyer
de Chancourtois
D. Newlands’ Law of
Octaves

If elements
are arranged
according to
increasing
atomic
masses,
John Alexander elements with
Reina Newlands
similar
physical and
E. Meyer’s Atomic Volume Curves

Julius Lothar
Meyer
F. Mendeleev’s Periodic Table

Dmitri Ivanovich
Mendeleev
“Chief Architect of
the Periodic Table of
G. Moseley’s Works on Atomic
Numbers

 Proposed the
periodic law which
states that the
“properties of the
elements are
periodic functions
Henry G.J.
of their atomic
Moseley numbers.”