WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements. Dynamic Periodic Table. Origin of the Periodic Table. I know what the periodic table looks like, but where did it come from?
Whose idea was it to arrange the elements this way? He set them out in order of atomic weight, and then grouped them into rows and columns based on their chemical and physical properties. 1869...that's way before the Schrödinger model, or even the Rutherford model. That's right. Mendeleev had no idea what atoms were made of or why they behaved as they did. Periodic Table Game.