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I believe it was Dmitri Mendeleev.
The scientist usually recognised is the Russian Chemist and Engineer Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev in 1869. A German Chemist Julius Lothar Meyer published something similar in the same year. An English Chemist John Newlands published 2 versions of his 'Law of octaves' in 1863 and 1865. Both of his versions had (different) serious shortcomings, and were not recognised nor held in high regard at the time.
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.
John Newlands - Australian politician - was born in 1864.
John Newlands - Australian politician - died in 1932.
John Alexander Reina Newlands was born on 1837-11-26.
The elements are grouped in to 7's. I took John Newlands 12 years to think of that solution. :)
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John Dalton was the first person to begin ordering the elements. He did this according to atomic mass. John Newlands developed this idea further and noticed that there were similarities in ever eighth element, he called this "the law of octaves'. Newlands called each group (column) of three elements a 'triad'
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"