Question: The first list of elements and their characteristics was written by?
Disambiguated questions and answers: question: The first list of elements and their characteristics was written in 1862 by?
The first official periodif table of elements and their characteristics was written by?
answer: de Chancourtois
Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois
Dmitri Mendeleev
Mendeleev
Natural Questions answer: Dmitri Mendeleev (from the Wikipedia article "History of the periodic table")