Who made the periodic table? In 1869 a Russian scientist called Dmitri Mendeleev invented the periodic system that we still use today.

The periodic table captures a subtle pattern that runs through the chemical elements , the fundamental building blocks of everything around us: from the aluminium in bike frames to the xenon gas ...

Published in 1869, the Periodic Table originally included 58 elements. But since then, there has been an average of an extra element added each year, with 118 elements now listed in total.