Edward G. Mazurs

Edward G. Mazurs (1894–1983) was a chemist who wrote a history of the <a href="/facts/Periodic_table/umdGIfUb">periodic system of the chemical elements</a> which is still considered a "classic book on the history of the periodic table". Originally self-published as Types of graphic representation of the periodic system of chemical elements (1957), it was reviewed by the ACS in 1958 as "the most complete survey of the range of human imagination in representing graphically the Mendeleev periodic law."
A revised "centenary" edition covering a full 100 years of periodic tables was republished under the title Graphic Representations of the Periodic System During One Hundred Years in 1974. Mazurs provided a comprehensive analysis and classification of periodic tables, listing and classifying over 700 periodic tables. He recommended <a href="/facts/Charles_Janet/Ho1LKL21">Charles Janet</a>'s left-step system and suggested that it could be expanded into three dimensions.

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Edward G. Mazurs