Hank gives us a tour of the most important table ever, including the life story of the obsessive man who championed it, Dmitri Mendeleev. The periodic table of elements is a concise, information-dense catalog of all of the different sorts of atoms in the universe, and it has a wealth of information to tell us if we can learn to read it. Like Crash Course? http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse Follow Crash Course! http://www.twitter.com/TheCrashCourse Tumbl Crash Course: http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com Table of Contents Dmitri Mendeleev - 0:45 Mendeleev's Organization of the Periodic Table - 2:31 Relationships in the Periodic Table - 5:03 Why Mendeleev Stood Out from his Colleagues - 7:09 How the Periodic Table Could be Improved - 8:28 More info. about the cylindrical periodic table of elements: http://www.av8n.com/physics/periodic-table.htm Support CrashCourse on Subbable: http://subbable.com/crashcourse