CONCEPT OF ATOMIC NUMBER LEADS TO THE SYNTHESIS OF NEW ELEMENT TO

THE LABORATY

Chemists in 19th century generally agreed about what particles consists matter and agreed that
matter consisted of atoms. However, they knew nothing about the structure of the atoms. The
information about known element gave them inspiration to arrange the elements in a table.

JOHN ALEXANDRIA REINA NEWLANDS

In 1864, J.A.R Newlands, an English chemist noticed that when the elements were arranged according
to increasing mass, every eight element would exhibit similar properties, better known as the law of
octaves.

Li Be B C N O F Na Mg Al
7 9 11 12 14 16 19 23 24 27
Si P S Cl K Ca
28 31 32 35 39 40

DMITRI IVANOVICH MENDELEEV

A Russian chemist who developed the periodic classification of the elements, Mendeleev found that,
when all the known chemical elements were arranged in order of increasing atomic weight, the resulting
table displayed a recurring pattern, or periodicity, of properties within groups of elements.

JULIUS LOTHAR MEYER

A German chemist who also worked on a periodic table, Meyer’s table only included 28 elements,
which were not classified by atomic weight, but by valence.

HENRY GWYN JEFFREYS MOSELEY

English physicist who experimentally demonstrated that the major properties of an element are
determined by the atomic number, not by the atomic weight, and firmly established the relationship
between atomic number and the charge of the atomic nucleus.

When Moseley arranged the elements in the periodic table by their number of protons rather than
their atomic weights, the flaws in the periodic table that had been making scientists uncomfortable for
decades simply disappeared.