Mendeleev

American  

[men-dl-ey-uhf, myin-dyi-lye-yef] / ˌmɛn dlˈeɪ əf, mjɪn djɪˈljɛ jɛf /

Or Mendeleyev,

noun

1. Dmitri Ivanovich 1834–1907, Russian chemist: helped develop the periodic law.

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Mendeleev Scientific  

/ mĕn′də-lā′əf /

1. Russian chemist who devised the Periodic Table, which shows the relationships between the chemical elements. He first published the Table in 1869 and continued to refine it over the next 20 years.

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Mendeleev

In 1871, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev created the first periodic table by arranging elements according to increasing atomic numbers and intentionally left empty spaces for elements he believed had yet to be found.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

The periodic table supposedly came to Dmitri Mendeleev in a dream.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

When Mendeleev first announced the periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society in 1869, it included sixty-three elements.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2021

Like Meyer, Mendeleev had organized his particles into a rough grid, its rows containing elements with similar properties.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 27, 2019

But Mendeleev went one step further than Meyer: He used his table to predict the existence of elements that would have the properties similar to aluminum and silicon, but were yet unknown.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019