--- title: Period Table Has Full 7th Row After New Elements Discovered description: Four new elements have been added to the periodic table, finally rounding out the chemical table’s seventh row, officials said. canonical: https://time.com/4165939/periodic-table-elements/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-04T14:33:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T09:02:46.965Z article:section: Science og:title: The Periodic Table Finally Has a Full 7th Row og:description: “To scientists, this is of greater value than an Olympic gold medal" og:url: https://time.com/4165939/periodic-table-elements/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt97fb4af046afb8ad/6988775ff887dc4e17e93f43/atomic-element-periodic-table-kosuke-morita.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3800 og:image:height: 2138 og:image:alt: Riken discovers the atomic element 113 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Periodic Table Finally Has a Full 7th Row twitter:description: “To scientists, this is of greater value than an Olympic gold medal" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt97fb4af046afb8ad/6988775ff887dc4e17e93f43/atomic-element-periodic-table-kosuke-morita.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Periodic Table Finally Has a Full 7th Row > Sponsored content. 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Kosuke Morita, who has led RIKEN group at the Riken institute, shows the 113 atomic element number at a news conference at the institute in Wako, Saitama Prefecture on Dec. 31, 2015.Noriake Sasaki—AP  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Jan 4, 2016 2:33 PM UTC Four new elements have been added to the periodic table, finally rounding out the chemical table’s seventh row, [officials said](http://www.iupac.org/news/news-detail/article/discovery-and-assignment-of-elements-with-atomic-numbers-113-115-117-and-118.html). The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) verified the new elements last week, which were discovered by scientists in the U.S., Japan and Russia. “The chemistry community is eager to see its most cherished table finally being completed down to the seventh row,” Professor Jan Reedijk, president of the Inorganic Chemistry Division of IUPAC, said in a statement. The man-made elements, which have not yet been officially named, are being temporarily called Element 113, Element 115, Element 117 and Element 118\. They’re the first to be added to the table since 2011 and were discovered by slamming lighter ­nuclei into each other and tracking the following decay of the radioactive superheavy elements, [according to _The Guardian_](http://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/04/periodic-tables-seventh-row-finally-filled-as-four-new-elements-are-added). “To scientists, this is of greater value than an Olympic gold medal,” Ryoji Noyori, a Nobel laureate in chemistry, told the newspaper. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4165939/periodic-table-elements/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4165939/periodic-table-elements/"},"headline":"The Periodic Table Finally Has a Full 7th Row","datePublished":"2016-01-04T14:33:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T09:02:46.965Z","description":"New elements were discovered by slamming lighter ­nuclei into each other","url":"https://time.com/4165939/periodic-table-elements/","keywords":["Chemistry"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt97fb4af046afb8ad/6988775ff887dc4e17e93f43/atomic-element-periodic-table-kosuke-morita.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt97fb4af046afb8ad/6988775ff887dc4e17e93f43/atomic-element-periodic-table-kosuke-morita.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Riken discovers the atomic element 113","caption":"Kosuke Morita, who has led RIKEN group at the Riken institute, shows the 113 atomic element number at a news conference at the institute in Wako, Saitama Prefecture on Dec. 31, 2015.","creditText":"Noriake Sasaki—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/chemistry/","name":"Chemistry"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4165939/periodic-table-elements/","name":"The Periodic Table Finally Has a Full 7th Row"}}]}] ```