Who created the periodic table?
Russian chemist, Dmitri Mendeleev is often considered the “father” of the periodic table, however, the work of many scientists contributed to its present form. http://www.chemsoc.org/networks/learnnet…
Throughout the years, other scientists were able to find or create these missing elements to form the table we know today. Today’s periodic table is ordered by atomic number instead of atomic mass (as Mendeleev had started). Henry Moseley was the first to order the elements by atomic number so elements would fit together in groups/families and periods better in 1913.
In Ancient Greece, Aristotle proposed that there were four main elements: air, fire, earth and water. The first periodic table was this. Russian chemistry professor Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev and four months later the German Julius Lothar Meyer independently developed the first periodic table, Also after a few years Robert Bunsen started to work on the periodic table.
