Timeline of major developments and scientists involved in the evolution of the periodic table
By Madi12345
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Iron is discovered
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Silver is discovered
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Gold is discovered
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Tin is discovered
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Antimony is discovered
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Bismuth is discovered
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Mercury is discovered
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Albertus Magnus discovers Arsenic
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Hennig Brandt discovers Phosphorus
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Georg Brandt discovers Cobalt
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Andreas Marggraf identifies Zinc as an element although it was known to the Greeks and Romans before 20BC
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Platinum is taken to Europe although it was known to native South Americans before Columbus
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Axel Fredrik Cronstedt discovers Nickel
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Joseph Black discovers Magnesium
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Henry Cavendish discovers Hydrogen
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Daniel Rutherford discovers Nitrogen
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Joseph Priestley, and Carl Wilhelm Scheele both independently discover Oxygen
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Carl Wilhelm Scheele discovers Chlorine
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Johan Gottlieb Gahn discovers Manganese
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Peter Jacob Hjelm discovers Molybdenum
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Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein discovers Tellurium
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Juan Elhuyar and Fausto Elhuyar co-discover Tungsten
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Martin Heinrich Klaproth discovers Zirconium
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Martin Heinrich Klaproth discovers Uranium
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Adair Crawford discovers Strontium
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William Gregor discovers Titanium
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Johan Gadolin discovers Yttrium
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Nicholas Louis Vauquelin discovers Beryllium
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Nicholas Louis Vauquelin discovers Chromium
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Andrés Manuel del Rio discovers Vanadium
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Charles Hatchett discovers Niobium
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Anders Gustav Ekeberg discovers Tantalum
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William Hyde Wollaston discovers Rhodium
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William Hyde Wollaston discovers Palladium
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Jöns Jacob Berzelius and Wilhelm Hisinger co-discover Cerium
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Smithson Tennant discovers Osmium
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Smithson Tennant discovers Iridium
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Humphry Davy discovers Sodium
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Humphry Davy discovers Potassium
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Louis-Josef Gay-Lussac, Louis-Jacques Thénard, and Humphry Davy all independently discover Boron
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Humphry Davy discovers Calcium
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Humphry Davy discovers Barium
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Bernard Courtois discovers Iodine
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Johan August Arfvedson discovers Lithium
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Jöns Jacob Berzelius discovers Selenium
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Friedrich Stromeyer discovers Cadmium
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Jöns Jacob Berzelius discovers Silicon
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Hans Oersted discovers Aluminium
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Antoine-Jérôme Balard and Carl Löwig both independently discover Bromine
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Jöns Jacob Berzelius discovers Thorium
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Carl Gustav Mosander discovers Lanthanum
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Carl Gustav Mosander discovers Terbium
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Carl Gustav Mosander discovers Erbium
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Karl Karlovich Klaus discovers Ruthenium
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Jacob .A. Marinsky, Lawrence E. Glendenin, and Charles D. Coryell all co-discover Promethium
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Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen co-discover Caesium
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Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen co-discover Rubidium
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William Crookes discovers Thallium
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Alexandre Béguyer de Chancourtois puts forward his idesa of the telluric spiral
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Ferdinand Reich and Hieronymous Richter co-discover Indium
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John Newlands puts forward his law of octaves
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JUlius Lothar Meyer presented a table of only 28 elements
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Dmitri Mendeleev discovers the periodic table
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Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran discovers Gallium
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Per Teodor Cleve at Uppsala and Marc Delafontaine and Louis Soret both independently discover Holmium
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Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac discovers Ytterbium
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Lars Frederik Nilson discovers Scandium
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Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran discovers Samarium
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Per Teodor Cleve discovers Thulium
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Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac discovers Gadolinium
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Carl Auer von Welsbach discovers Praseodymium
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Carl Auer von Welsbach discovers Neodymium
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Henri Moissan discovers Fluorine
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Clemens Winkler discovers Germanium
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Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran discovers Dysprosium
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Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay co-discover Argon
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Sir William Ramsay and independently Per Teodor Cleve and Nils Abraham Langlet in Uppsala discover Helium
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Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers co-discover Neon
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Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers co-discover Krypton
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Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers co-discover Xenon
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Marie Curie discovers Polonium
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Pierre Curie and Marie Curie co-discover Radium
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Andrew Debierne discovers Actinium
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Friedrich Ernst Dorn discovers Radon
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Eugène-Anatole Demarçay discovers Europium
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J.J. Thompson proposes his idea of the plum pudding model
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Georges Urbain and Charles James both independently discover Lutetium
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Ernest Rutherford discovers the Atomic model of the atom
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Kasimir Fajans and Otto Göhring co-discover Protactinium
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George Charles de Hevesy and Dirk Coster co-discover Hafnium
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Walter Noddack, Ida Tacke and Otto Berg co-discover Rhenium
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Carlo Perrier and Emilio Segrè co-discover Technetium
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Marguerite Perey discovers Francium
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Dale R. Corson, Kenneth Ross MacKenzie and Emilio Segrè co-discover Astatine
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Edwin McMillan and Philip Abelson co-discover Neptunium