Mendeleyev

British

/ mɪndɪˈljejɪf /

noun

Dmitri Ivanovich (ˈdmitrij iˈvanəvitʃ). 1834–1907, Russian chemist. He devised the original periodic table of the elements (1869)

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State Department said it lifted sanctions imposed in 1999 against the Dmitri Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology and the Moscow Aviation Institute.

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As to immorality, it is not people like Mendeleyev but poets, abbots, and personages regularly attending Embassy churches, who have the reputation of being perverted debauchees, libertines, and drunkards.

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