Periodic Table
Man in profile in front of wall chart

The Transfermium Wars: Scientific Brawling and Name-Calling during the Cold War

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Illustration highlighting the rare earth elements in the periodic table

Book Club: The Risks and Rewards of Rare Earth Elements

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Panelists discuss rare earth elements

UCLA Daily Bruin: Panelists Discuss Challenges Caused by Use of Rare Earth Elements
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New York Times: Is It Time to Upend the Periodic Table?
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The Oprah Magazine: 20 Best History Podcasts That’ll Make You Rethink What You Learned in School
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IUPAC Paris 2019 meeting logo

ChemistryViews: IUPAC 2019 in Paris
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miners hauling electronics that are causing pollution

Rare Earths: The Hidden Cost to Their Magic

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Periodic table with cellphones depicting US and China flags

Green Tech Media: A Strategic Approach to Rare Earth Elements as Global Trade Tensions Flare
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Illustration of periodic table

LiveScience: How Many Chemical Elements Can You Name?
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Rare earth elements

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Periodic table showing rare earth elements

GreenBiz: Reimagining Rare Earth Elements in a Sacrifice Zone-Free Future
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Ida Noddack

Nature: Celebrate the Women behind the Periodic Table
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International Year of the Periodic Table
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What’s in a Logo?

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Braving the Elements: Why Mendeleev Left Russian Soil for American Oil

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Coloring Chemistry

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Medusa Nebula

Elements of Invention

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Dmitri Mendeleev at the Working Desk.

Mendeleev at Home

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Detail from The Periodic Printmaking Project

The Periodic Table Printmaking Project

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William Ramsay.

William Ramsay
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An 1830 engraving of Sir Humphry Davy, by G. R. Newton, after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830).

Humphry Davy
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Amedeo Avogadro. Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Amedeo Avogadro
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John Dalton, F.R.S., engraved by William Henry Worthington after an 1814 painting by William Allen, published June 25, 1823, in Manchester and London. Note the charts with Dalton’s atomic symbols lying on the table.

John Dalton
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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev as a young man.

Julius Lothar Meyer and Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
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Stanislao Cannizzaro. Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Stanislao Cannizzaro
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Making Modernity exhibition at the Museum at CHF.

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Yasser Arafat

Nuclear Option

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composite image of Mendeleev, Meyer, and their periodic systems

An Element of Order

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A periodic table of cupcakes

The Periodic Table at Play

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Stanislao Cannizzaro at the age of 32, after a sketch by Demetrio Salazzaro. Courtesy Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Setting the Table

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Mendeleev’s Legacy: The Periodic System

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