Influence On The Periodic Table of The Elements
Dmitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist, often played "chemical solitaire" using modified playing cards containing various properties of the 63 known elements. He is credited with inventing the periodic table of the elements, while arranging these cards in a solitaire-like table, arranged by columns of similar behavior and rows ordered by atomic weight.
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