Many scientists worked on the problem of organizing the elements, but Dmitri Mendeleev published his first version of the periodic table in 1869, and is most often credited as its inventor. Since then ...

This year we celebrate the 150 th anniversary of Mendeleev’s achievement in formulating the structure of the periodic table that we use today. He announced his structure in 1869, but the challenge of ...

Dmitri Mendeleev, who arranged the first version of our current table, predicted the existence and properties of undiscovered elements that would fill the open spaces in his table. Learn more about ...

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Watch this video to find out more information on the periodic table close periodic tableA table which lists all of the chemical elements and arranges them in a way that is useful. It allows us to ...

Mrs Roberts: Not quite. So, today we're going to look at the periodic table. That thing that you see behind your teacher on the wall in science lessons. It actually tells us a lot about the ...