150 Years of the Periodic Table: A Commemorative Symposium

Chapter 1 - Introduction: Overview and ScopeChapter 2 - Trouble with triadsChapter 3 - Sir John F.W. Herschel and the concept of periodicity Chapter 4 - Vis tellurique of Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de ChancourtoisChapter 5 - Periodicity in Britain: The periodic tables of Odling and NewlandsChapter 6 - Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs and his Chart of the ElementsChapter 7 - Lothar Meyer's path to periodicityChapter 8 - Mendeleev and his periodic systemChapter 9 - Discovery of the elements predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev's table: Scandium, gallium, and germaniumChapter 10 - Rare Earth ElementsChapter 11 - History (and pre-history) of the discovery and chemistry of the noble gasesChapter 12 - Hydrogen, helium, and metals: When astronomy met the periodic table Chapter 13 - Hydrogen to oganesson: A philatelic celebration of the periodic table Chapter 14 - Impact of 20th century physics on the periodic table and questions still outstanding in the 21st centuryChapter 15 - Uses of the Periodic System after Radioactivity and the Discovery of the Neutron: the contrasting views of Lise Meitner and Ida NoddackChapter 16- Mary Elvira Weeks and The Discovery of the ElementsChapter 17 - From neptunium to mendelevium: element discovery and the birth of the atomic ageChapter 18 - Transactinide elements: How the 7th row of the periodic table was discoveredChapter 19 - Periodic table after period 7.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030679098
• ISBN13: 9783030679095
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"