Periodic Table Timeline

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  • 'The Sceptical Chymist'

    Robert Boyle publishes 'The Sceptical Chymist' introducing the idea of elements more widely and outlining the argument of their existence

  • Henry Cavandish discovers Hydrogen

    Henry Cavandish discovers hydrogen leading the way to many more discoveries into elements including the use of hydrogen in rockets

  • The first list of elements

    Antoine Lavoisier wrote the first list of elements outlining exactly to the world how far research into elements had progressed

  • Introduction of atomic sybol's in the form of letters

    Jakob Berzelius introduced the use of atomic symbol's in the form of letters

  • Modelling the modern periodic table

    Dmitri Mendeleev modelled the modern periodic table and used this table to predict accurately other elements that the world had yet to discover.

  • Synthesising transuranic elements

    Glenn Seaborg synthesised transuranic elements opening up whole new branches of the periodic table that had only ever been theorised.