History of the Periodic Table

  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle

    The earliest ideas of atoms, molecules, and chemical reactions marking the beginning of the history of modern chemistry
  • Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794)

    Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794)

    In the late 1700's, French scientist Antoine Lavoisier started to compile a list of all the elements that we're know at the time. Their was only 33 known elements categories.
  • Jakob Berzelius

    Jakob Berzelius

    Developed a table of atomic weights and symbols
  • John Newlands (1837-1898)

    John Newlands (1837-1898)

    John Newlands proposed an organizational scheme for the elements. He noticed that the elements were increasing by the atomic mass
  • Lothar Meyer (1830-1895)

    Lothar Meyer (1830-1895)

    Demonstrated a connection between atomic mass and elements properties
  • Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907)

    Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907)

    Predicted the existence and properties of undiscovered elements
  • William Ramsay

    William Ramsay

    Discovered the Noble Gases
  • Henry Moseley (1887-1915)

    Henry Moseley (1887-1915)

    Discovered that atoms contain a unique number of protons called atomic numbers