Giunta C.J., Mainz V.V., Girolami G.S. (Eds.) 150 Years of the Periodic Table: A Commemorative Symposium

Springer, 2021. — 453 p. — (Perspectives on the History of Chemistry). — ISBN 978-3-030-67909-5.This book provides an overview of the origins and evolution of the periodic system from its prehistory to the latest synthetic elements and possible future additions. The periodic system of the elements first emerged as a comprehensive classificatory and predictive tool for chemistry during the 1860s. Its subsequent embodiment in various versions has made it one of the most recognizable icons of science.Based primarily on a symposium titled “150 Years of the Periodic Table” and held at the August 2019 national meeting of the American Chemical Society, this book describes the origins of the periodic law, developments that led to its acceptance, chemical families that the system struggled to accommodate, extension of the periodic system to include synthetic elements, and various cultural aspects of the system that were celebrated during the International Year of the Periodic Table.Editors’ Introduction
Dmitri Mendeleev and the Periodic System: Philosophy, Periodicity, and Predictions
The Trouble with Triads
Josiah Parsons Cooke, the Natural Philosophy of Sir John F. W. Herschel and the Rational Chemistry of the Elements
Vis Tellurique of Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois
Periodicity in Britain: The Periodic Tables of Odling and Newlands
Gustavus Hinrichs and His Charts of the Elements
The Periodic Table of the Elements and Lothar Meyer
Translation of §§ 91–94 of Lothar Meyer’s Modernen Theorien (1864)
Discovery of Three Elements Predicted by Mendeleev’s Table: Gallium, Scandium, and Germanium
The Rare Earths, a Challenge to Mendeleev, No Less Today
The History (and Pre-history) of the Discovery and Chemistry of the Noble Gases
Element Discovery and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Mary Elvira Weeks and Discovery of the Elements
Astronomy Meets the Periodic Table, Or, How Much Is There of What, and Why?
The Impact of Twentieth-Century Physics on the Periodic Table and Some Remaining Questions in the Twenty-First Century
An Essay on Periodic Tables
The Periodic Table at 150: A Philatelic Celebration