Dmitri Mendeleev is known as the father of the periodic table, but his interests were wide-ranging and sometimes eccentric. We take a look at his varied and often tumultuous life. Dmitri Mendeleev’s ...

Mendeleev’s first periodic table of elements was released on Feb. 17, ... 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published his first attempt to sort the building blocks of life into orderly groups.

Dmitri Mendeleev is known as the father of the periodic table of elements, and rightly so. He ordered the elements correctly based on their properties, which helped predict the discovery of new ...

Mendeleev was the creator of the original Periodic Table of the Elements, which he literally dreamed up one night in 1869, after falling asleep at his desk with 65 note cards arrayed in front of ...

Eric Scerri is a historian and philosopher of chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA. Such has been the scientific and cultural impact of Dmitri Mendeleev’s ...