Julius Lothar Meyer is celebrated in today's Google Doodle, on what would have been the scientist's 190th birthday. The German chemist, professor and author was one of two scientists to independently ...

At the middle of the 19th century, 63 chemical elements were known to science. Before Mendeleev’s discovery, attempts at arranging them in some logical way were made by Johann Doebereiner (1829), ...

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PARIS, January 29. /TASS/. Russian scientists will hold the first experiments at the Super-Heavy Element Factory in Dubna near Moscow in April to synthesize the 114th and 115th elements of Mendeleev’s ...

In this video excerpt from NOVA's "Hunting the Elements," New York Times technology columnist David Pogue explores how the periodic table of elements took shape. Learn how the periodic table developed ...

This year is the International Year of the Periodic Table, and we’ve been celebrating the sesquicentennial of a remarkable achievement: a rule set for chemists. In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev published his ...

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The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of (the) chemical elements, is a tabular display of the chemical elements. It is widely used in chemistry, physics, and other sciences, and is ...