PRI: Design for the Real World

Periodic Tables


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This week in Studio 360's Design for the Real World: Sam Kean explains how the 19th century Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev invented the the Periodic Table and why the table's orderly design endures today. Kean is the author of "The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements."
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PRI: Design for the Real WorldBy Public Radio International/WNYC