Memoire Sur Un Classement Naturel Des Corps Simples Ou Radicaux Appele Vis Tellurique With

by Alexandre Emile Beguyer De Chancourtois

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“There are valid reasons for declaring that the periodic system was essentially discovered in 1862 by De Chancourtois, a French geologist. De Chancourtois appears to have taken not just an important step in the story of the periodic system but, in many ways, the single most important step. It was he who first recognized that the properties of the elements are a periodic function of their atomic weights, a full seven years before Mendeleev arrived at the same conclusion.” -Scerri,

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