Mendeleev organized the elements by atomic number and properties. For example all the elements in each column have similar chemical and physical properties because they have the the same amount of valence electrons or the same number short of a full outer energy level.
The table of Newlands was only an incomplete precursor of the Mendeleev table.
Newlands and Dobereiner. Newlands did the Law of Octaves. Dobereiner did the Triads.
The Mendeleev table is more complex and rational.
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier and John Newlands were first to dicover the table but later the scientist named dimitri mendeleev full arranged the elements discovered at that time
The periodic table of elements (Table of Mendeleev) is not split in half.
John Newlands, in designing his table, believe that it was governed by the "Law of Octaves". While this is true for elements in what are now groups 2 and 3, it fails in period 4, when the periodicity becomes 18.
The table of Newlands was only an incomplete precursor of the Mendeleev table.
Newlands and Dobereiner. Newlands did the Law of Octaves. Dobereiner did the Triads.
Dimitri Mendeleev produced the first periodic table leaving spaces for elements that were not yet known in 1869; Henry Mosely determined the atomic number of elements and corrected some inaccuracies in Mendeleev's periodic table.
The Mendeleev table is more complex and rational.
Many attempts were made by Dobereiner , Newlands and Mendeleev in initial stages. Later on , the idea of arranging elements in increasing atomic number came up which is the today's periodic table.
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier and John Newlands were first to dicover the table but later the scientist named dimitri mendeleev full arranged the elements discovered at that time
This is the periodic table of elements (Mendeleev table).
Dmitri Mendeleev published the first periodic table in 1869. He built on the work of several other scientists, including Antoine Lavoisier, Johann Dobereiner, Alexandre-Emile Beguyer de Chancourtois, and John Newlands, who had previously studied the best way to classify the elements.
Lavoisier, Dobereiner, Newlands, Mendeleev, and Moseley
British chemist, John Newlands had the idea of arranging chemical elements in order of their relative atomic masses and he arranged his elements in columns. However, Russian chemist, Dmitri Mendeleev greatly improved on Newlands' idea and convinced other chemists to use it, so Mendeleev has been credited with the invention of the periodic tbale...but as of today we are still developing some of hte last elements.... from: "http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blperiodictable.htm"
The greatest triumph of Mendeleev's periodic table was his predictions of the existence of the undiscovered elements.