Dmitri Mendeleev

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev ({{lang-ru|???????? ????????? ??????????}} {{Audio|ru-Dmitri_Mendeleev.ogg|listen}}) ({{OldStyleDate|8 February|1834|27 January}} in Tobolsk – {{OldStyleDate|2 February|1907|20 January}} in Saint Petersburg), was a Russian chemist. He is renowned for being one of the two scientists who created the first version of the periodic table of elements. Unlike other contributors to the table, Mendeleyev managed to predict the properties of elements yet to be discovered. In several cases he even ventured to question the accuracy of the accepted atomic weights, arguing that they did not correspond to those predicted by the Periodic Law, and here too subsequent research proved him correct.

External links

• More about Mendeleev
• Mendeleev and Sanskrit
• Picture of Mendeleev, Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, University of Pennsylvania
• Original Periodic Table, annotated
• Mendeleev's first draft version of the Periodic Table, 17 February 1869
• Faraday Lecture by Mendeleev, July 4, 1889, annotated
• A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table, a book by Michael Gordin