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 ...

Many scientists worked on the problem of organizing the elements, but Dmitri Mendeleev published his first version of the periodic table in 1869, and is most often credited as its inventor. Since then ...

The periodic table organizes chemical elements based on atomic weight, electron configurations, and chemical properties, ...

National Periodic Table Day, observed annually on February 7, honors one of the most significant achievements in scientific ...

He expounded this idea at the Karlsruhe Congress in Germany in 1860 – the first ever international chemistry conference. Among the many pioneering chemists in attendance was one Dmitri Ivanovich ...

Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius. They include: -- Civil War-era U.S. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman in ...