The periodic table stares down from the walls of just about every chemistry lab. The credit for its creation generally goes to Dimitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist who in 1869 wrote out the known ...

One hundred fifty years after Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published his system for neatly arranging the elements, the periodic table it gave birth to hangs in every chemistry classroom in the ...

If you think back to middle school chemistry, you’ll probably remember trying to memorize the Periodic Table of the Elements. Perhaps the Tom Lehrer song is still ingrained in your head: I wish my ...

The periodic table of elements (often known simply as the periodic table) has been helping scientists with their work for a ...