First person to arrange elements in a table?

Answer 1

Dmitri Mendeleev

In ancient Greece, Aristotle postulated that there were four elements (fire, water, earth, air) and arranged these accordingly. Later on when science began to theorize (and later prove) the existence of atomic elements without the benefit of knowing the subatomic properties involved, people sorted them in many different ways.

In 1829 Döbereiner proposed the Law of Triads: The middle element in the triad had atomic weight that was the average of the other two members.

The English chemist John Newlands, noticed in 1865 that when placed in order of increasing atomic weight, elements of similar physical and chemical properties recurred at intervals of eight, which he likened to the octaves of music. As knowledge about subatomic particles increased, this system proved unreliable and fell into disfavor.

The modern Periodic Table of elements which is based on both atomic weights and chemical properties was developed by Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev in 1869. Four months later, a German professor Julius Lothar Meyer independently developed a periodic table similar to Mendeleev's.

However, Mendeleev plotted a few elements out of strict mass sequence in order to make a better match to the properties of their neighbors in the table, corrected mistakes in the values of several atomic masses, and predicted the existence and properties of a few new elements in the empty cells of his table. Mendeleev was later vindicated by the discovery of the electronic structure of the elements in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Mendeleev's periodic table also successfully predicted the future discovery of several elements, and has thus become the de-facto standard for the organization and display of the elements.
The person you're looking for is Gregor Mendeleev.

Answer 2

Dmitrii Mendeleev is generally credited for arranging the first periodic table. It was first presented to the Russian Chemical Society in 1869. He arranged elements according to increasing atomic weight in vertical rows so that the horizontal rows contain 'analogous' elements (generally weights that increase in common increments).

Answer 3

Dimitri Mendeleev was the first person to devised the first comprehensive periodic table of elements.

Answer 4

The first version of the modern periodic table was developed by the Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869, and he did it by dealing out cards.

Answer 5

Dr. Don had been the first one to arranged the elements on the periodic table and we still use that arrangement today.