Meyer did contribute to the development of the periodic table in

another way though. He was the first person to recognise the

periodic trends in the properties of elements, and the graph
shows the pattern he saw in the atomic volume of an element
plotted against its atomic weight

In 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev created the

framework that became the modern periodic table, leaving gaps
for elements that were yet to be discovered. While arranging the
elements according to their atomic weight, if he found that they
did not fit into the group he would rearrange them.
In 1913, English physicist Henry Moseley correlated the
properties of elements to their atomic numbers. He then
rearranged the elements in the periodic table on the basis of
atomic numbers and it was found that this resolved the
disparities in earlier forms of the periodic table that were based
on atomic masses