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The declaration by UNESCO of 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table sparked celebrations and renewed study of this icon of science. Activities included exhibitions, symposia, and publications—including the present volume. A few of those events are reviewed, and the contents of the present volume are previewed.
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As several chapters in this volume will make clear, Mendeleev is the best-known discoverer of the periodic system of the elements and of its chief embodiment, the periodic table, but he was not the first.
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A joint effort of one of the co-editors (GSG) and his University of Illinois colleague Alex Scheeline.
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Giunta, C.J., Mainz, V.V., Girolami, G.S. (2021). Editors’ Introduction. In: Giunta, C.J., Mainz, V.V., Girolami, G.S. (eds) 150 Years of the Periodic Table. Perspectives on the History of Chemistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67910-1_1
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