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Today’s guest op-ed authors are Dennis Howard and Roger Best of Global Sports Insights, an Oregon-based company specializing ...

Emperor Peter the Great had great foresight when he founded the University by decree in 1724. Since then, the institution has had a profound impact on Russian intellectual life and has produced a long ...

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Law Wai-ching, 13, Pope Paul VI College: I would share my secret with a stray dog. I would tell them that they are loved and ...

On 17 February 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev jotted down the symbols for the chemical elements, putting them in order according to their atomic weights and inventing the periodic table ...

Dmitri Mendeleev, the Russian chemist who published what is regarded as the first widely recognised periodic table, has been celebrated with his own Google doodle on what would have been his 182nd ...

The periodic table as we know it is widely credited to Dmitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist who kept reference cards on the elements and their atomic weight. In 1869, he noticed that the elements ...

Who was Dimitri Mendeleev? A true Renaissance man, with expertise ranging from chemistry to physics via applications such as aeronautics, hydrodynamics and meteorology – who developed the ...

Dmitri Mendeleev would trim his beard and hair once a year. No except­ion even for the Czar. Assiduously forming the periodic table, he was also an unwavering lover.

The table has served chemistry students since 1869 when it was created by Dmitri Mendeleev, a cranky professor at the University of St. Petersburg. With a publisher’s deadline looming, Mendeleev ...