Julius Lothar Meyer

Meyer and Mendeleev had a great deal in common. They both attended the crucial first world chemistry conference at Karlsruhe which produced a significantly more accurate list of atomic weights than had previously existed. This was the key to arranging the elements in sequence. They both trained at Heidelberg University under Bunsen and Kirchoff. Thus they would certainly have known each other although neither was aware of all the work done by the other. Meyer's roots, however, were firmly in Germany.

Julius Lothar Meyer . Reproduced courtesy of the Library and Information Centre, Royal Society of Chemistry.