John Newlands took issue with the credit that Mendeleev was given for the periodic table in his book ‘On the Discovery of the Periodic Law’ in 1884, going so far as to quote Mendeleev as supporting ...

Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table is a quiet book and also a masterpiece. It is a collection of short stories charting a way through the author’s life and experiences as a working chemist in ...

That’s why this periodic table clock really caught our eye. [gocivici]’s idea is a simple one: light up three different elements with three different colors for hours, minutes, and seconds ...

Melanie Scott wrote two entertaining books, each featuring the superheroes and villains of Marvel and DC Comics as periodic tables.

The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

On 17 February 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev jotted down the symbols for the chemical elements, putting them in order according to their atomic weights and inventing the periodic table.