Mendeleev then submitted a paper to the society and in 1869 published an abstract of it along with a version of the table in Zeitschrift für Chemie (12 405). Robinson pulled out a copy of Mendeleev’s ...

The periodic table of elements, or Mendeleev’s table, was created in 1869 by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. This table organizes all known chemical elements by their atomic number, or the ...

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 ...

On Feb. 17, 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published his first attempt to sort the building blocks of life into orderly groups. Now, 150 years later, we know the fruits of his labor as the ...

Chemistry The true story of the birth of the periodic table, 150 years ago Contrary to the myth, Dmitri Mendeleev's great idea didn't come to him in a dream. Here's the real story of the invention ...

Mendeleev knew none of it: prevailing theory in the 1860s was that atoms were indivisible, and had no internal structure. Electrons had yet to be discovered and Mendeleev himself was sceptical ...