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Eric Scerri's delightful "The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance" follows the 1969 classic by J. W. Spronsen, "The Periodic System of Chemical Elements," but is a different treatment of ...

But the periodic table didn’t actually start with Mendeleev. Many had tinkered with arranging the elements. Decades before, chemist John Dalton tried to create a table as well as some rather ...

One hundred fifty years after Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published his system for neatly arranging the elements, the periodic table it gave birth to hangs in every chemistry classroom in the ...

More than a thousand different versions of the periodic table have been created since Dmitri Mendeleev drew the first 150 years ago – but why is one version more familiar to us than practically every ...

As of 2019, the Periodic Table of the Elements has been around for 150 years. Maybe you've felt a certain chemistry with 2019 but don't know why? Maybe it's because this year marks the 150th ...

Kelling Donald receives funding from The National Science Foundation, and the Dreyfus Foundation. The periodic table merges scientific inquiry, international politics, hero worship, desires for ...

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