Dmitri Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor who formulated the Periodic Law and the periodic table of elements. Mendeleev was born in the Siberian town of Tobolsk. His father died when ...

At the middle of the 19th century, 63 chemical elements were known to science. Before Mendeleev’s discovery, attempts at arranging them in some logical way were made by Johann Doebereiner (1829), ...

The periodic table, also called the periodic table of elements, is an organized arrangement of the 118 known chemical elements. The chemical elements are arranged from left to right and top to bottom ...

Julius Lothar Meyer is celebrated in today's Google Doodle, on what would have been the scientist's 190th birthday. The German chemist, professor and author was one of two scientists to independently ...

Before the year is out, let's raise a glass to the great Russian chemist Dmitrii Mendeleev, to celebrate the 140th anniversary of his periodic table of the elements. Russia has commemorated this, and ...

One of the most amazing scientific discoveries of the last two centuries was created using nothing more than a pen and a piece of paper by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869: the periodic table. He was ...

PARIS, January 29. /TASS/. Russian scientists will hold the first experiments at the Super-Heavy Element Factory in Dubna near Moscow in April to synthesize the 114th and 115th elements of Mendeleev’s ...

Dmitry Ivanovic Mendeleev was born in the Siberian provincial town of Tobolsk in February 1834. The youngest of 17 children, "Mityanka" as he was known to his friends, showed an early aptitude for ...

It also commemorates the remarkable scientific heritage of D. I. Mendeleev, father of the Periodic Table, who’s work played a fundamental role in the future of chemistry, physics, biology, astronomy ...

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