Taken from the February 2019 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "An unelementary affair".
More than a thousand different versions of the periodic table have been created since Dmitri Mendeleev drew the first 150 years ago – but why is one version more familiar to us than practically every other? Robert P Crease finds out
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