The Impact of Twentieth-Century Physics on the Periodic Table and Some Remaining Questions in the Twenty-First Century (2021)
Scerri, Eric R. (Author)
Giunta, Carmen J. (Editor)
Mainz, Vera V. (Editor)
Girolami, Gregory S. (Editor)
Springer International Publishing
Pages: 409-423
Publication date: 2021
Language: English
The historical development of the theoretical account of the periodic table provided by theoretical physics is reviewed, beginning with discoveries made at the start of the twentieth century. The article highlights the attempts to theoretically explain several features of the periodic table including the well-known period doubling or Madelung rule of orbital occupation. The account includes more recent group theoretical approaches which go beyond quantum mechanics and seek an explanation based in the underlying symmetry of the periodic table and how this symmetry is broken to produce the diversity of atoms that we are familiar with. The approach taken is one of seeking a global solution to such questions rather than merely solving the equations of quantum mechanics for each individual case.
...MoreBook Carmen J. Giunta; Vera V. Mainz; Gregory S. Girolami (2021) 150 Years of the Periodic Table: A Commemorative Symposium.
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