It’s the work of James Harris, who took 176 story-telling tropes — ranging from Etw (evil twin) to Ir (no, not Iridium, intrepid reporter) — and organized them all into a grouped table.

A periodic table of chemical elements showing where every atom in the solar system comes from. Jennifer A. Johnson/The Ohio State University; NASA; ESA ...

For the record: 10:55 a.m. Feb. 25, 2019 An earlier version of this story stated that George Burbidge co-authored a landmark paper on the origins of the elements. His name was Geoffrey Burbidge.

He started his talk by discussing the first modern periodic table produced in 1869 by Dmitri Ivanich Mendeleev (1834-1907), a Russian chemist who developed the periodic classification of the elements ...