The periodic table is one of the greatest achievements in scientific history, a tool that has transformed chemistry from an ...

The periodic table of the chemical elements is a tabular method of displaying the chemical elements, first devised in 1869 by the Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev. Mendeleev intended the table to ...

The table got four new elements in January. Dmitri Mendeleev, the Russian chemist who published what is regarded as the first widely recognised periodic table, has been celebrated with his own ...

Atomic structure, in fact, explains why the periodic table works, but this was understood much after the table was first constructed. The backstory to the construction is no less fascinating.

Clarice Phelps is the first Black woman to help discover a new periodic table element. "Taking a seat at the periodic table didn't happen overnight, it was actually a 20-year journey," she said.

How the first Black woman to help discover an element ‘claimed a seat at the periodic table’ By Charli Leevongcharoen , CNN 6 minute read ...