Accidentally I stepped on an article which turned out to be an eyeopener.
In fact many individuals who had attended high school and manage to remember something out of the science lectures attended, "Periodic Table" is well remembered.
The first name that comes is Dmitri Mendeleev. The inventor of Periodic Table.
We recapture here what is Periodic Table.
Periodic Table is arranging of Chemical elements in the order of Atomic Weights.
The unknown knowledge is that Mendeleev is incorrect answer "The
actual inventor of the periodic table is someone rarely mentioned in chemistry
history books: de Chancourtois."
He created periodic system on a Cylinder called vis Tellurique.
Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois was geologist who had presented a paper regarding arrangement of the elements in 1862. This was years before Mendeleev presented his paper.
Now the question why Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois is not remembered / recognized. The reason is "de Chancourtois was a geologist and his paper primarily
dealt with geological concepts so his periodic table did not gain the attention
of the chemists of the day".
This was a new discovery for me. Hope School text books give reference of Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois when it writes about Inventor of Periodic Table.
References:
https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-the-periodic-table-608823?
References:
https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-the-periodic-table-608823?
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