Many scientists worked on the problem of organizing the elements, but Dmitri Mendeleev published his first version of the periodic table in 1869, and is most often credited as its inventor. Since then ...

Meyer's roots, however, were firmly in Germany. Meyer was just four years older than Mendeleev, and produced several Periodic Tables between 1864-1870. His first table contained just 28 elements, ...

The first steps of creation changed more than just the periodic table. In 1941 ... To make element 114, Oganessian would sling calcium (with 20 protons) at plutonium (with 94).

But how many of these elements do you know? Test your knowledge and compete with other Live Science readers to see who can come top in our periodic table quiz ... Related: Inside the 20-year quest to ...

They all have a link to the periodic table, which turned 150 in 2019 ... Antimony has probably the most chequered past of all the elements on this list. Its first known use was quite glamorous ...

Can you believe the periodic table ... elements with similar properties. It has a unique arrangement of rows and columns. A Russian scientist named Dmitri Mendeleev produced one of the first ...

Using lasers beams to measure the nuclear radius of isotopes at the end of periodic table. Elements at the end of the ...

Scientists have found that our bodies need 28 different elements to function properly. These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods.

An international team led by scientists of GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz ...

Electronegativity, an essential characteristic of all elements in the periodic table, measures an atom's ability to attract electrons towards itself within a chemical bond. This vital theoretical ...