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William Odling

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and there are vacant slots for undiscovered ones. In addition, Odling overcame the tellurium-iodine problem and he even managed to get thallium, lead, mercury and platinum in the right groups - something that Mendeleev failed to do at his first attempt.
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efforts at getting his own periodic table published. One such unrecognised aspect was for the suggestion he, Odling, made in a lecture he gave at the
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Carmen J. Giunta, Vera V. Mainz, and Julianna Poole-Sawyer (2020), "Periodicity in Britain: The Periodic Tables of Odling and Newlands" in
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Odling also served as a fellow (1848–1856), Honorary Secretary (1856–1869), Vice-President (1869–1872) and President (1873–1875) of the
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In the 1860s Odling, like many chemists, was working towards classifying the elements, an effort that would eventually lead to the
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made a similar suggestion in 1857, then in a subsequent paper later that same year proposed that carbon is a tetravalent element.
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original table. Odling drew up a table of elements using repeating units of seven elements, which bears a striking resemblance to
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as well as a Censor (1878–1880 and 1882–1891), Vice-President (1878–1880 and 1888–1891) and President (1883–1888) of the
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Odling failed to achieve recognition, however, since it is suspected that he, as Secretary of the
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in 1850. Leaving St Bartholomew's in 1868 he became a Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the
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type for carbon (Proceedings of the Royal Institution, 1855, vol 2, p. 63-66).
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Academics of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital
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are horizontal, the elements are in order of increasing
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where in 1868 and 1870 he was invited to deliver the
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Index


FRS
Southwark
London
Oxford
chemist
periodic table
periodic table of elements
Lothar Meyer
Dmitri Mendeleev's
Mendeleev's
groups
atomic weight
Chemical Society of London
John Alexander Reina Newlands'
Royal Institution
methane
August Kekulé
St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School
Guy's Hospital Medical School
Royal Institution
Royal Institution Christmas Lecture
Waynflete Professor of Chemistry
Worcester College
Oxford
Chemical Society of London
Institute of Chemistry
Royal Society of London
Leiden University
History of the periodic table

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