THIS book may be viewed in two aspects—as a body of information and as a narrative. As a body of information it is very comprehensive. In no other work dealing with the periodic law, so far as the ...

Science has already given mankind a myriad of things. The periodic table is one of these. Chemists have done a great job of classifying chemical elements by increasing their atomic number.

The iconic chart of elements has served chemistry well for 150 years. But it’s not the only option out there, and scientists are pushing its limits. By Siobhan Roberts When Sir Martyn Poliakoff, a ...

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), ...

THE Mendeleeff Centenary Lecture was delivered before the Chemical Society at the Royal Institution on April 19 by Lord Rutherford, and is printed in the Journal of the Society for May. Lord ...