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Dmitri Mendeleev

1834 - 1907

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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev ( MEN-dəl-AY-əf; 8 February [O.S. 27 January] 1834 – 2 February [O.S. 20 January] 1907) was a Russian chemist known for formulating the periodic law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements. He used the periodic law not only to correct the then-accepted properties of some known elements, such as the valence and atomic weight of uranium, but also to predict the properties of three elements that were yet to be discovered (germanium, gallium and scandium). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dmitri Mendeleev is the 3rd most popular chemist, the 12th most popular biography from Russia (down from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Chemist.

Dmitri Mendeleev is most famous for creating the periodic table of elements.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Dmitri Mendeleev ranks 3 out of 602. Before him are Louis Pasteur, and Alfred Nobel. After him are Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Irène Joliot-Curie, Amedeo Avogadro, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Robert Boyle, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, and Emil Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Dmitri Mendeleev ranks 1. After him are Edgar Degas, Gottlieb Daimler, Ernst Haeckel, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, John Venn, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, William Morris, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Léon Walras, and Carl Bloch. Among people deceased in 1907, Dmitri Mendeleev ranks 1. After him are Edvard Grieg, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Klara Hitler, Sully Prudhomme, Oscar II of Sweden, Henri Moissan, Giosuè Carducci, Asaph Hall, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Hector Malot, and Alfred Jarry.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dmitri Mendeleev ranks 12 out of 3,761. Before him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), Igor Stravinsky (1882), and Yuri Gagarin (1934). After him are Peter the Great (1672), Anton Chekhov (1860), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Grigori Rasputin (1869), Ivan the Terrible (1530), and Boris Yeltsin (1931).

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Among CHEMISTS In Russia

Among chemists born in Russia, Dmitri Mendeleev ranks 1. After him are Otto Wallach (1847), Paul Karrer (1889), Ilya Prigogine (1917), Valery Legasov (1936), Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Nikolay Semyonov (1896), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841), Alexander Butlerov (1828), and Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838).

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