Julius Lothar Meyer, the German chemist who was one of the pioneers in developing the first periodic table of chemical elements, is being honored by Google today with a Google Doodle on his 190th birthday. Google wrote “Happy birthday, Julius Lothar Meyer, and thank you for braving the elements for the sake of scientific knowledge!”

Julius Lothar Meyer was born on August 19, 1830 in Varel, Germany and died at the age of 64 on April 11, 1895 in Tübingen, Germany.

Here is a picture of Lothar Meyer’s periodic table, published in “Die modernen Theorien der Chemie” in 1864:

This is what Google wrote:

I love learning new tidbits from these Google Doodles.

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