The first recorded attempt at creating a system to organise the elements was when Antoine Lavoisier published his table of elements ... the similar relationships later found in the modern periodic ...

Can France claim the first periodic table? Probably not, but a French Geology Professor made a significant advance towards it, even though at the time few people were aware of it. Alexandre Béguyer de ...

The earliest attempt to classify the elements was in 1789, when Antoine Lavoisier grouped ... The zigzag, staircase, line in the diagram of the periodic table above separates the metals, on ...