A century and a half ago, a Russian chemistry professor published a classification of all the known elements, organized by atomic weight. Today, the system that he created for his students — plus some ...

1887: Intent on observing a solar eclipse, a celebrated Russian chemist uses a hot-air balloon to make a solo ascent above the clouds near Moscow, even though he has never been in a balloon before and ...

Credit for the periodic table of the elements generally goes to Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, but a specialist in the history and philosophy of chemistry says the Russian chemist probably peeked at the ...

The Russian chemist who created the periodic table of elements is also sometimes credited with another important invention: vodka. Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907) a Russian chemist who created ...

Popular myth credits the Russian chemist, who created the periodic table of elements, as the inventor of vodka. Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907) a Russian chemist who created the periodic table ...

Every field of science has its favorite anniversary. For physics, it’s Newton’s Principia of 1687, the book that introduced the laws of motion and gravity. Biology celebrates Darwin’s On the Origin of ...

Advocates of the liberal arts approach to education will love the historical and political backdrop painted by biographer Michael D. Gordin to illustrate the culture of 19th-century Russia during the ...

Dmitri Mendeleev has an almost god-like status in the pantheon of science. Many people probably picture the creator of the earliest version of the periodic table as a bearded genius hunched over ...

Mendeleev created the first version of the periodic table, which was published in 1869, in just one day. This moment has been carefully reconstructed, and we know that on the morning of February 17, ...

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Mendeleev knew when he created the table that there were still gaps and where other elements were meant to be. He was clever enough to predict, however, that in the future new elements would be ...