HISTORY OF THE

PERIODIC TABLE
ALVIN LEO T. SUASIN
PERIODIC TABLE

• The periodic table is a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements by increasing 

atomic number which displays the elements so that one may see trends in their properties.
• The Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev is most often credited with inventing the periodic
table (1869). The modern table is derived from Mendeleev's periodic table, but with one
significant different. Mendeleev's table ordered the elements according to increasing 
atomic weight rather than atomic number. 
PERIODIC TABLE

The periodic table is an arrangement of all the elements known to man in accordance with
their increasing atomic number and recurring chemical properties.
Recurring – Periodic
PERIODICITY

Repetitions of the similar properties of the elements placed in a group and separated by
certain definite gap of atomic number are known as Periodicity.
 SYMBOLS OF THE ELEMENTS

Jons Jacob Berzelius opted to use the first letter of the Latin name of the chemical
compound instead of drawing circles or arrows. He thus symbolized Carbon as C and
Oxygen as O . If two letters had the same first letter then the first two letters were to be
used as the symbols Berzelius opted to use the first letter of the Latin name of the chemical
compound instead of drawing circles or arrows. He thus symbolized Carbon as C and
Oxygen as O . If two letters had the same first letter then the first two letters were to be
used as the symbols.
JOHANN DOBEREINER
JOHN NEWLANDS
 LOTHAR MEYER
• 1868
• Lothar Meyer compiled a periodic table of 56 elements based on a regular repeating pattern of physical
properties such as molar volume. Once again, the elements were arranged in order of increasing atomic
weights. (Meyer’s work was not published until 1870.)
• 1869
• Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev produced a periodic table based on atomic weights but arranged
‘periodically’. Elements with similar properties appeared under each other. Gaps were left for yet to be
discovered elements.
DMITRI IVANOVICH MENDELEEV

• Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is best known for
formulating the Periodic Law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements.
 HENRY MOSELEY
• 1913
• Henry Moseley determined the atomic number of each of the known elements. He realized that, if the elements
were arranged in order of increasing atomic number rather than atomic weight, they gave a better fit within the
‘periodic table’.