Prof. Müller "Periödik" Bürgermeister
Prof. Müller "Periödik" Bürgermeister was a german guy who devised the Periodic Table, named after the English translation of his nickname, which was bestowed upon him for arriving to scientific meetings in "periods of 10", such as 7:10 am, 5:40 pm, and 14:20 pm. This made him either really late or really early, usually favoring the latter.
The man devised his master work when he was just messing around with chunks of gold and iron (read, smashing them together like a child. very scientific, don't worry.) when he noticed that the two elements seemed to be quite different, from one another. The chunk of gold was heavier than the iron, yet it deformed easier than the iron could. This was different from yesterday's science session, as he used copper instead of iron, and the two just kinda globbed together like clay.
With this discovery in mind, he started work on a table arranging the different elements he could find around his house (the man was an avid collector of various rocks and metals) by how they acted compared to each other. This was quite simple until he noticed that air was a thing, and was also made up of different elements. This made it very hard to do science sessions to see how the different gases reacted, so he just chucked them into a column called "the noble gases".
His first draft of the table was very empty, due to the fact he did not know how many elements actually existed and how many elements were just fakes (like antimony. i refuse to believe that's an actual element, that's a fucking alchemical concoction not a scientific element but i'm getting ahead of myself). However, he still presented it to everyone else at thursday's scientific meeting regardless. The sheer scope of the project Müller presented before everyone else was shocking, and everyone was cautioning him to stop it here and leave it as it is before he locks himself in his house to find more elements and end up not showing his face at the meetings for years. Logically, Müller disregarded this advice, and locked himself in his house to find more elements, and ended up not showing his face at scientific meetings for at least a decade or so.
When he finally reappeared again, everyone was stunned to see the man had actually lived, and found new elements, such as Helium and Arsenic (that's another thing like antimony, how the fuck is that a real name scientists came up with for an element?? it's like if someone chucked ambrosia into the periodic table and nasa was all like "yep. that's a new element." like no the fuck it's not but i'm getting ahead of myself again). The members of the meeting reviewed his table and went "holy shit this is really through how'd you come up with this?" and Müller went
except instead of "i made it up" it was "it came to me in a dream" but that's just semantics. (this is one of the only things on this page that's actually factual, the man had how the elements connect to one another revealed to him in a fucking dream. look it up.)
And that's why you should thank him for giving you that awesome trivia fact on Team 17's page!