state the names of two scientists who helped develop the periodic table
Confidence votes 1.1K. .In 1869 the Russian chemistry professor Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev and four months later the German Julius Lothar Meyer independently developed the first periodic table, arranging the elements by mass. its invention though is generally credited to Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. Although Dmitri Mendeleev is often considered the father of the periodic table, the work of many scientists contributed to its present form.   In the Beginning   A necessary prerequisite to the construction of the periodic table was the discovery of the individual elements.