History of Periodic Table

Who is the Father of Periodic Table of Elements?

• Lothar Meyer

• Dmitri Mendeleev

• John Newlands

• Henry Moseley

Who discovered the Law of Octaves?

• Henry Moseley

• Lothar Meyer

• Antoine Lavoisier

• John Newlands

He classified some elements into groups of three, which he called triads.

• John Newlands

• Johann Wolfang Döbereiner

• Antoine Lavoisier

• Lothar Meyer

He is the only person to have an element named after him while still alive.

• Henry Moseley

• Glenn T. Seaborg

• Lothar Meyer

• Dmitri Mendeleev

He published his own table of the elements organized by increasing atomic mass.

• Lothar Meyer

• John Newlands

• Henry Moseley

• Glenn T. Seaborg

He rearranged the elements in order of increasing atomic number.

• Johann Dobereiner

• John Newlands

• Henry Moseley

• Lothar Meyer

He published a table of the elements organized by increasing atomic mass.

• Dmitri Mendeleev

• Lothar Meyer

• John Newlands

• Henry Moseley

He moved 14 elements out of the main body of the periodic table to their current location below the Lanthanide series.  These became known as the Actinide series.

• Henry Moseley

• Glenn T. Seaborg

• Lothar Meyer

• Dmitri Mendeleev