Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and academic (born 1834)

Dmitri Mendeleev

Russian chemist (1834–1907)

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist known for formulating the periodic law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements. He used the periodic law not only to correct the then-accepted properties of some known elements, such as the valence and atomic…