Resources if you want to read more about the “superheavy” elements, the ones at the end of the Periodic Table with atomic numbers with atomic numbers greater than 103. BOOKS …
This post will highlight some recent works discussing the scarcity of various elements on the periodic table, including one that caught some people by surprise because it’s one of the …
In this post, we’ll highlight other representations of the periodic system. “Developing a Modern Periodic Table: From Spirals to the Stars” highlights a few of these representations, including a 3D …
The first name that comes to mind is most likely Marie Skłodowska Curie, for her pioneering research in radioactivity, her co-discovery of the elements radium and polonium, and her Nobel Prizes. …
Here we’ll highlight some articles and posts about Julius Lothar Meyer, whose first table of the elements was published five years before Mendeleev’s. Yet it’s Mendeleev’s name that is most …
In this second in our series celebrating the International Year of the Periodic Table, we’ll highlight the early versions developed by Dmitri Mendeleev. The Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography offers …
2019 marks the 150th anniversary of Dmitri Mendeleev establishing what would become the periodic table, that very familiar arrangement of chemical elements in columns and rows based on atomic weights and …
