A MODERN table of chemical elements must show electronic configurations as well as the variation in the properties of the elements with atomic number. It should also include the lanthanide and ...

Eric Scerri's delightful "The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance" follows the 1969 classic by J. W. Spronsen, "The Periodic System of Chemical Elements," but is a different treatment of ...

The United Nations announced 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements to highlight its first publication in 1869. The periodic table as we know it today was first ...

Every field of science has its favorite anniversary. For physics, it’s Newton’s Principia of 1687, the book that introduced the laws of motion and gravity. Biology celebrates Darwin’s On the Origin of ...

To the three requirements of a modern Periodic Table, as stated by A. A. Clifford 1, must be added a fourth, namely, that it should be in as close accord as possible with chemical facts, and above all ...