About Lothar Meyer
Julius Lothar Meyer was a German chemist. He was one of the pioneers in developing the earliest versions of the periodic table of the chemical elements. The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev and he both had worked with Robert Bunsen. Meyer never used his first given name and was simply known as Lothar Meyer throughout his life. Meyer is best known for his part in the periodic classification of the elements. The mineral lotharmeyerite, CaZn2(AsO4)2 · 2H2O, was discovered in 1983 and named in recognition of Meyer's work on the Periodic Law.
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