A discussion of the development of the periodic table beginning with Prout's protyle and ending with Mendeleev. Much of the material for this episode has been developed from Eric Scerri's, "The Periodic Table, Its Story and Its Significance." Persons discussed include William Prout, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Leopold Glemin, Max Joseph Pettenkofer, Ernst Lenssen, Alexander Emile Beguyer De Chancourtois, John Newlands, William Odling, Gustavus Hinrichs, Lothar Meyer and Dmitri Mendeleev.
The Periodic Table of Elements
Three dimensional representation of De Chancourtois' Telluric Screw
Diagram of the Radial Period System of Gustav Hinrichs
Reproduction of Mendeleev's Table from his 1870 textbook on chemistry
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