| A | B |
| Dobereiner | grouped elements in triads |
| Newlands | Law of Octaves |
| Mendeleev | grouped elements in periods by mass |
| Mosley | xray experiments showed the positive charge of the nucleus, the atomic number we use to group elements |
| Schrodinger | intoduced the principal quantum number |
| de Broglie | wave particle duality |
| Pauli | exclusion principle (spin) |
| Aufbau | filling order of orbitals |
| Hund | place one electron in each sublevel orbital before filling |