The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

Mrs Roberts: At its simplest, the periodic table is all the different elements arranged together in a chart. A Russian scientist called Dmitri Mendeleev produced one of the first practical ...

University of St Andrews Early periodic table chart from around 1879 recently discovered at the University of St Andrews This has made it "quite whole and beautiful", he says. "At the moment ...