Mrs Roberts: Well, the modern periodic table shows us all of the elements arranged in rows, which are called periods. It has changed a lot over the years as we've learned more and more about atoms.

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With Glenn T. Seaborg's 1945 discovery that the actinides were in fact f-block rather than d-block elements, a recognisably modern form of the table was reached. The periodic table and law are now a ...

Can France claim the first periodic table? Probably not, but a French Geology Professor made a significant advance towards it, even though at the time few people were aware of it. Alexandre Béguyer de ...