5 nov 1862 ano - Alexandre-Emile Beguyer
de Chancourtois
published
his classification
of the elements.
The resulting
helical curve, which
de Chancourtois called
a square circle triangle,
brought similar
elements onto
corresponding
points above or
belowone another
on thecylinder.
He was the first
scientist to see
the periodicity
of elements when
they were arranged
in order of their
atomic weights.