Open AccessThe periodic law of the chemical elements: ‘ The new system of atomic weights which renders evident the analogies which exist between bodies ' []
Author(s) -
Peter P. Edwards,
R.G. Egdell,
Dieter Fenske,
Benzhen Yao
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
philosophical transactions of the royal society a mathematical physical and engineering sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.074
H-Index - 169
eISSN - 1471-2962
pISSN - 1364-503X
DOI - 10.1098/rsta.2019.0537
Subject(s) - theme (computing) , subject (documents) , relation (database) , natural law , natural (archaeology) , relevance (law) , periodic system , natural science , epistemology , philosophy , law , history , chemistry , theoretical physics , physics , political science , mathematics , archaeology , computer science , library science , mathematical analysis , database , operating system
The historical roots, the discovery and the modern relevance of Dmitri Mendeleev's remarkable advance have been the subject of numerous scholarly works. Here, with a brief overview, we hope to provide a link into the contents of this special issue honouring the great scientist. Mendeleev's advance, announced in March 1869, as he put it in 1889, to the ‘…then youthful Russian Chemical Society… ’, first set out the very basis of the periodic law of the chemical elements, the natural relation between the properties of the elements and their atomic weights. This was, and still is, the centrepiece of a historical journey for chemistry to today's position as a pre-eminent science.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Mendeleev and the periodic table'.
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