This year we celebrate the 150 th anniversary of Mendeleev’s achievement in formulating the structure of the periodic table that we use today. He announced his structure in 1869, but the challenge of ...

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 ...

A Russian scientist called Dmitri Mendeleev produced one of the first practical periodic tables in the nineteenth century. The modern periodic table is based closely on the ideas he used.

A Russian scientist called Dmitri Mendeleev produced one of the first practical periodic tables in the nineteenth century. The modern periodic table is based closely on the ideas he used.