Mendeleev

Or Men·de·ley·ev,

[men-dl-ey-uhf, myin-dyi-lye-yef]

noun

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

Mendeleev

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.

Example Sentences

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

From Salon

My friends said Mendeleev wasn’t handing its patrons masks the week before.

From Washington Post

As scientists celebrated Dmitri Mendeleev’s enduring array of chemical elements this year, some also wondered whether there might be a better way to organize the stuff of the universe.

From New York Times

Mendeleev’s predictions were wrong as often as they were right.

From The New Yorker

Central to those efforts was investing heavily in precision metrology; the tsar found eager and skilful natural scientists such as Mendeleev to help7.

From Nature