Sci: History of Periodic Table Flashcards
Father of Modern Chemistry
first to recognize the true elements
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1749)
Who invented the Law of triads?
Johann Dobereiner (1817)
What is the Law of Triads?
groups of 3 elements with similar properties and proportional atomic mass
Started using Chemical symbols (O and H2O)
Jons Jacob Berzelius (1828)
Who discovered the Law of Octaves?
John Newlands (1864)
What is the Law of Octaves?
Elements are arranged by atomic mass
Every 8th had similar p
Organized elements by mass
Early periodic tables
Lothar Meyer (1869)
Grouped 66 elements by properties and atomic mass (early periodic tables)
predicted existence of unknown element
Dmitri Mendeleev (1869)
Modern Periodic Table (order of atomic number)
Henry Moseley (1913)