KYAMBOGO UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF SCIENCE

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CHEMISTRY

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

SEMESTER TWO, YEAR ONE

ASSIGNMENT 1

LECTURER NAME: AKAMPURIRA DENIS

QUESTION: summarize the historical development of periodic table

SUMMARY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PERIODIC TABLE

YEAR SCIENTIST CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT

OF THE PERIODIC TABLE
1829 Johann German chemist best known for the work that
Dobereiner foreshadowed the periodic law for the chemical
elements. He found that he could form some of the
elements into group of three, with the members of
each group having related properties. He termed
this groups triads, and atomic weight of middle
elements was found to be generally the arithmetic
mean of the atomic weight of the middle element.
1864 John English chemist who put forward his law of
Newlands octaves, which stated that any given element will
exhibit analogous behavior to the eighth element
following it in the table. He classified sixty-two
known elements into eight groups, based on their
physical properties
He arranged all the elements known at that time in
order of relative atomic mass. He put the similar
elements into vertical columns known as groups.
Groups were shown going down the table with
periods across.

1869 Lothar Meyer A German scientist who noted that if elements are
arranged in order of their atomic weights, they fall
into groups of similar chemical and physical
properties repeated at periodic intervals. In one of
the books he published, 28 elements were
classified into 6 families by their valencies. This
table listed the elements in order of atomic weight,
with elements with the same valency arranged in a
vertical line.
1869 Dmitri Russian chemist who identified the trends and the
Mendeleev relationship in order of the elements and built a
table that was predictive. Mendeleev arranged
elements in horizontal rows and vertical columns
of a table in order of their increasing atomic
weight in such a way that the elements with
similar properties occupied the same vertical
columns or group.