A century and a half ago, a Russian chemistry professor published a classification of all the known elements, organized by atomic weight. Today, the system that he created for his students — plus some ...

At first glance, the system of chemical elements published by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869 bears little resemblance to the modern periodic table. But by listing elements in columns, and lining up the ...

In the mid-19th century, new chemical elements were being discovered at the rate of about one per year. By 1863, 56 elements were known. For a long time scientists had been searching for a way by ...

Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Bologna. Recognized for the lasting impact of his outstanding scientific achievements in basic chemical sciences and his career-long efforts to promote ...

Dmitry Ivanovic Mendeleev was born in the Siberian provincial town of Tobolsk in February 1834. The youngest of 17 children, "Mityanka" as he was known to his friends, showed an early aptitude for ...

Popular myth credits the Russian chemist, who created the periodic table of elements, as the inventor of vodka. Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907) a Russian chemist who created the periodic table ...

As students, any chemistry with chemistry was jeopardised while memorising the periodic table. Staring at the table of elements arranged in order, there was no excitement but agony. Dmitri Mendeleev ...

Mankind has known materials such as gold, silver, mercury, iron, phosphorous, sulphur and others since antiquity. Alchemists tried making gold out of “base” metals — with no success. But we had to ...

Dmitri Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor who formulated the Periodic Law and the periodic table of elements. Mendeleev was born in the Siberian town of Tobolsk. His father died when ...

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Each poem encompasses more than a world in a grain of sand; there is a universe on every page of this slim tome. Goodfellow invokes everything from binary theorems to ancient literature, and most of ...