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Article: UCLA Chemist Provides New Insights Into a Science Icon and Its History: the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements.
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- November 17, 2006
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Byline: UCLA
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The periodic table of chemical elements hangs in front of chemistry classrooms and in science laboratories worldwide. Yet much was unknown about its history and evolution until now.
"The moment I discovered there was this elegant, orderly chart that encompassed chemistry, I fell in love with the periodic table," said Eric Scerri, a UCLA chemist and author of the recently published "The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance" (Oxford University Press). "It captured my imagination, and it still does. It is completely unique in science. Chemistry is the only field with one simple chart that ...