Mendeleev’s Periodic Table
- Proposed by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869.
- Based on the periodic recurrence of properties of elements when arranged in order of increasing atomic mass.
- Contained 63 known elements at the time.
- Mendeleev organized elements into rows and columns to form the periodic table.
- He left gaps in the table for undiscovered elements and predicted their properties accurately, such as gallium (eka-aluminum) and g