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Hennig Brand a bankrupt german tried to discover the philosopher's stone, but failed and instead discovered the chemical element phosphorous.
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At least 47 elements were discovered
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Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner started to trying to formulate the periodic table and classify the elements.
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Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, discovered that some of the chemical elements with similar chemical properties could be put into groups of three.
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The English chemist William Odling also drew up a table that was similar to the table published by Mendeleev.
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John Newlands classified 56 known elements into eleven groups based on their physical properties.
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There is a lot of history put into the periodic table, it was first published by Dimitri Mendelev, other scientists did have there input but the he was more well known as being the sole creater.
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French physicist Antoine Bequerel first discovered radioactivity.
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Rutherford discuessed that radioactivity is caused by the breakdown of atoms.
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James Chadwick first discovered neutrons, and isotopes were also identified
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Glenn Seaborg identified lanthanides and actinides.