Periodic table

Element Discoveries

  • Hydrogen

    Hydrogen
    Discovered by chemist and physician Daniel Rutherford
  • Nitrogen

    Nitrogen
    Discovered by Scottish physician Daniel Rutherford
  • Oxygen

    Oxygen
    Discovered by Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele
  • Carbon

    Carbon
    Discovered (As an element) by Antoine Lavoisier
  • Beryllium

    Beryllium
    Discovered by Louis Nicolas Vauquelin
  • Boron

    Boron
    Discovered by French chemists Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis-Jaques Thénard
  • Lithium

    Lithium
    Discovered by Johan August Arfvedson
  • Helium

    Helium
    Discovered by French astronomer Jules Janssen
  • Fluorine

    Fluorine
    Discovered by French chemist Henri Moissan
  • Neon

    Neon
    Discovered by chemist William Ramsay