A Russian scientist called Dmitri Mendeleev produced one of the first practical periodic tables in the nineteenth century. The modern periodic table is based closely on the ideas he used.
A Russian scientist called Dmitri Mendeleev produced one of the first practical periodic tables in the nineteenth century. The modern periodic table is based closely on the ideas he used.
Mendeleev did not have the easiest of starts in life. He was born at Tobolsk in 1834, the youngest child of a large Siberian family. His father died while he was young, and so his mother moved the ...