Dmitri Mendeleev
1834 – 1907 Russian chemist
The chemist who created the periodic table of the elements.
- Religion
- Born Russian Orthodox, he held unorthodox private views and clashed with the church.
- Affiliations
- Professor at Saint Petersburg. No secret society.
Mendeleev arranged the elements by their properties into the periodic table and boldly predicted elements not yet discovered. When those elements were found as he described, his system was vindicated. The periodic table remains a foundation of chemistry.
In the timeline
- 1869 Mendeleev arranges the periodic table mentioned