The correct answer to this question is Dmitri Mendelev, a Russian inventor and chemist, created the Periodic Table of Elements, which is one of the most reliable tables in science. In 1856, Mendeleev was not aware of the 56 known elements.
He had a dream about all of the elements residing in their respective place in a table, and when he woke up, he formulated the table with the exisiting elements, along with elements that he suspected would be discovered later.
He added blank boxes so that the elements that were discovered later could be added. For instance, germanium was discovered in 1886 years after the table was created, and Mendeleev had predicted it and named it eka-silicon.