The periodic table of the elements, principally created by the Russian chemist, Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907), celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. It would be hard to overstate its importance ...
One of my favorite tunes growing up was Tom Lehrer's song The Elements, which was merely the periodic table sung to the tune of Gilbert & Sullivan's "Major General's Song." (The version above, from ...
Does your love of the periodic table extend to tying 200,000 tiny knots? That was the project that Jane Stewart of Surrey, England, undertook last summer. To honor the International Year of the ...
Editor’s note: The following, originally published with the title “Putting the Elements in Their Places,” is the introduction to the Scientific American Classics special digital edition,“The Quest for ...
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