Dmitri Mendeleev
From Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D., About.com
Dmitri Mendeleev is credited with developing the first periodic table of the elements. There were earlier tables, but Mendeleev's table showed the elements exhibited a periodicity of properties when they were arranged according to their atomic weight.
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