Scientists Who Discovered Elements

Chemistry is often felt like a tough subject for many of us. It is assumed as difficult, maybe because of the chemical reactions, laws, etc. From high school time, we are mesmerized with the Chemistry topic – Periodic Table, which alone forms the foundation for chemistry. Many students will have tried to memorize all the 118 elements, their atomic number, mass number, groups, periods! When it comes to the aspect of competitive examination for a job, most exams have General Science part, covering objective questions related to basic chemistry topics. So, keeping in mind all these factors, here in this article, we can check the list of names of scientists who discovered elements with years of discovery or synthesis.

The periodic table is the arrangement of the elements on the basis of their atomic number, chemical properties, the configuration which comes recurring. An Element is a pure substance composed of the same atoms, with the same number of protons in their nuclei. The number of protons in the nuclei uniquely defines the characteristics and is termed the atomic number. While the atomic mass is formed by the total number of protons and neutrons in its nucleus.

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List of Names of Scientists Who Discovered Elements

Check the list of elements arranged in increasing order of their atomic number and the scientist who discovered the element and the year of discovery.

Elements from Atomic Number 1 to 50

Elements from Atomic Number 51 to 118

The scientist who Discovered Highest Number of Elements

From the above list of scientists, we can get the answer to the question that who has discovered the most number of elements. That scientist is Albert Ghiorso (1915-2010). He was born in California on July 15, 1915, and was an American nuclear scientist who co-discovered a world-record twelve elements on the periodic table.

Elements co-discovered by Albert Ghiorso

• Americium (Atomic Number 95)
• Curium (Atomic Number 96)
• Berkelium (Atomic Number 97)
• Californium (Atomic Number 98)
• Einsteinium (Atomic Number 99)
• Fermium (Atomic Number 100)
• Mendelevium (Atomic Number 101)
• Nobelium (Atomic Number 102)
• Lawrencium (Atomic Number 103)
• Rutherfordium (Atomic Number 104)
• Dubnium (Atomic Number 105)
• Seaborgium (Atomic Number 106)

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Entomology of Elements

Elements named after Scientists

Elements named after Country or Places

• Polonium
• Francium
• Gallium
• Nihonium
• Germanium
• Americium
• Berkelium
• Californium
• Tennessine
• Dubnium
• Moscovium
• Scandium
• Thulium
• Ruthenium
• Lutetium
• Copper
• Yttrium
• Terbium
• Erbium
• Ytterbium
• Hafnium
• Holmium
• Magnesium
• Manganese

Elements named after Astronomical bodies

• Mercury
• Copper
• Iron
• Tin
• Lead
• Gold and Silver
• Uranium
• Selenium
• Helium
• Neptunium
• Plutonium
• Cerium
• Palladium

Elements named after Minerals

• Calcium
• Silicon
• Sodium
• Potassium

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Periodic Table – History and Salient Features

• 1789 – French chemist Antoine Lavoisier tried grouping the elements as metals and nonmetals.
• 1829 – German physicist Johann Wolfang Dobereiner arranged elements in groups of three in increasing order of atomic weight and called them triads,
• Law of Octaves – British chemist John Newlands arranged the elements into a periodic table with increasing order of atomic masses on the basis of his observation that every eight elements had similar properties.
• 1869 – Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev created the modern periodic table. He left gaps for elements that were yet to be discovered. Arranging the elements according to their atomic weight. Also, Mendeleev predicted the properties of some undiscovered elements and gave them names like ‘eka-aluminium’ for an element with properties similar to aluminium. Later on, it was discovered as gallium.
• 1870 – German chemist Lothar Meyer produced a version of the periodic table.
• The horizontal rows are called periods, with metals in the extreme left and nonmetals on the right. And, vertical columns, called groups, consist of elements with similar chemical properties.
• 2019 was named the ‘International Year of the Periodic Table’ to mark the 150th anniversary of Mendeleev’s publication by UNESCO.

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To conclude these are relevant notes for the questions to be asked for the competitive examinations from the periodic table and year and name scientists who discovered elements. And aspirants also note the atomic number and letter code for each element. Hope the article was informative and helpful. Read more articles covering the static GK topics for all government competitive examinations.