Wolfram co-founder breathes new life into Periodic Table

If somebody was going to make a work of art of that periodic table of the elements chart you may remember from your high school science classroom, Theodore Gray was the guy to do it.

Even if your high school's chart was in color, it probably wasn't much to look at, with its staid grid of letters abbreviating, and numbers denoting the atomic weight of, all the elements from actinium to zirconium.

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