When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Feb. 17, 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published his first attempt to sort the ...

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 the middle of the 19th century, 63 chemical elements were known to science. Before Mendeleev’s discovery, attempts at arranging them in some logical way were made by Johann Doebereiner (1829), ...

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 ...

Credit for the periodic table of the elements generally goes to Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, but a specialist in the history and philosophy of chemistry says the Russian chemist probably peeked at the ...

This year isn’t only the 50th anniversary of the first moon walk, it’s also the 150th anniversary of probably the greatest breakthrough in the study of chemistry, the invention of the periodic table ...

Before the year is out, let's raise a glass to the great Russian chemist Dmitrii Mendeleev, to celebrate the 140th anniversary of his periodic table of the elements. Russia has commemorated this, and ...

On 17 February 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev jotted down the symbols for the chemical elements, putting them in order according to their atomic weights and inventing the periodic table. He ...

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The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has proposed to name the new element in Mendeleev's periodic table in honor of the Russian-Armenian physicist Yuri Oganessian. The element with ...