1869 is considered as the year of discovery of the Periodic System by Dmitri Mendeleev.
2019 will be the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements and has therefore been proclaimed the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (IYPT2019) by the United Nations General Assembly and UNESCO.
During the Year we post our events and activities for IYPT2019 on these pages.
Every month during 2019 we are asking a School of Chemistry PhD student to highlight an element and tell us how it links in to their research. Click on the element below to read about their PhD experiences and learn more about the different elements, their uses and their importance in the research carried out here.
