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Lothar Meyer

A formal portrait of Lothar Meyer, a German chemist in a dark suit with a white beard, seated against a dark background.

German chemist (1830–1895) at Karlsruhe and later Tübingen who arrived at a periodic arrangement of the elements at roughly the same moment as Mendeleev, and is best known for his graph of atomic volume against atomic weight — a beautiful sawtooth that made the periodicity visible at a glance. His version of the table had no gaps and made no predictions, which is why posterity remembers Mendeleev first.

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