Julius Lothar Meyer is celebrated in today's Google Doodle, on what would have been the scientist's 190th birthday. The German chemist, professor and author was one of two scientists to independently ...

Every year, National Periodic Table Day is celebrated on February 7 since 2016 as a way to pay tribute to the chart. The periodic table is a tabular composition of chemical elements in accordance with ...

THIS book may be viewed in two aspects—as a body of information and as a narrative. As a body of information it is very comprehensive. In no other work dealing with the periodic law, so far as the ...

Science has already given mankind a myriad of things. The periodic table is one of these. Chemists have done a great job of classifying chemical elements by increasing their atomic number.

At the middle of the 19th century, 63 chemical elements were known to science. Before Mendeleev’s discovery, attempts at arranging them in some logical way were made by Johann Doebereiner (1829), ...

The iconic chart of elements has served chemistry well for 150 years. But it’s not the only option out there, and scientists are pushing its limits. By Siobhan Roberts When Sir Martyn Poliakoff, a ...

IN none of the chemistry books or magazines to which I have access can I find any reference to a curious property of the chemical elements in connection with the Periodic Law. If instead of placing ...