Mendeleev, Dimitri Ivanovich

Mendeleev, Dimitri Ivanovich (1834-1907) Rnssian chemist in Saint Petersburg develops the modern periodic table. 

Name in honor of Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907) Properties... 

The creation of the modern periodic table of elements was the result of very similar insights by two men, Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907)2... 

Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev s periodic table of the elements has been tremendously important in chemistry and the philosophy of chemistry. It provides a power-fill organizing principle that has led to the discoveries of new unsuspected elements and, until recently, it stands as one of the best examples of a genuinely chemical law. There have been not completely successful—attempts to explain the periodic law with quantum theory (Scerri 2003b), but it remains, like Darwin s theory of natural selection in biology, a cornerstone of chemistry. It would be spectacular if a similar periodic system could be developed for molecules. It would help organizing the massive complexity that constitutes the huge number of known chemical species, and it would help predict new compounds that might be synthesized and developed for practical purposes. It would also be a wonderftd further example of chemistry s... 

Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (figure 4.1) is the undisputed champion of the periodic system in at least two senses. First of all, he is by far the leading discoverer of the system. Although he was not the first to develop a periodic system, his version is the one that created the biggest impact on the scientific community at the time it was introduced and thereafter. His name is invariably and justifiably connected with the periodic system, to the same extent perhaps as Darwin s name is synonymous with the theory of evolution and Einstein s with the theory of relativity. 

Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev. Photo and permission from Emiho Segre Collection. 

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