The periodic table : its story and its significance / Eric R. Scerri.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.

xxii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-328) and index.

The Periodic System - An Overview -- Quantitative Relationships Among The Elements -- Discoverers of the Periodic system -- Mendeleev -- Prediction and Accommodation -- The nucleus and the periodic table -- The electron and Chemical Periodicity -- Electronic explanations by chemists -- Quantum Mechanics and the P.T. -- Astophysics, nucleosynthesis and more chemistry.