QuestionChemistry / periodic table
Name the scientist who was NOT associated with the work of periodic classification of elements?
- (a) Dmitri Mendeleev
- (b) Robert Bunsen
- (c) Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner
- (d) John Newlands
Answer: (b) Robert Bunsen
Periodic classification: Döbereiner (triads), Newlands (octaves), Mendeleev (periodic law), also Lothar Meyer and Moseley. Bunsen is known for the burner and spectroscopy (with Kirchhoff), not periodic classification.