Answer to Question #69876 in Inorganic Chemistry for esther

Question

''the properties of elements are periodic functions of the atomic numbers''. this is the statement of who?

Answer 1

Answer:
This is the statement of Periodic law initially stated by Dmitri Mendeleev (but he referred to the atomic mass instead of atomic numbers because the atom structure was not investigated yet) with later modification by Henry Moseley (due to his research the atomic mass in the law was replaced with the atomic number).