Chemistry Timeline

  • 1904 BCE

    William Ramsay discover noble Gases

    William Ramsay discover noble Gases
    A British physical chemist who discovered the four following gases; neon, argon, krypton, and xenon
  • 1869 BCE

    Julius Lothar Meyer

    Julius Lothar Meyer
    Published a periodic table.
  • 1733 BCE

    Joseph Priestly discover Oxygen

    Joseph Priestly discover Oxygen
    In 1774 he conducted an experiment to generate oxygen from heating reddish mercury oxide and found the new air was many times as good as common air.
  • 450 BCE

    Empedocles

    Empedocles
    He stated a theory; All matter is made up of differing proportions, of four elemental substances.
  • Robert Boyle

    The major gas developer who discovered that the volume of a gas decreases with increasing pressure and vice versa
  • Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

    Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
    Created the Periodic Law and a farsighted version of the Periodic Table of Elements.