Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev 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-
Dmitri Mendeleev
Mendeleev's 1871 periodic table
Mendeleev, Alfred Werner, Adolf von Baeyer, and other prominent chemists
Mendelevium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Md and atomic number 101. A metallic radioactive transuranium element in the actinide series, it is the first element by atomic number that c
Dmitri Mendeleev
…uranium, but also to predict the properties of three elements that were yet to be discovered (germanium, gallium, and scandium). The synthetic element mendelevium is named in his honor. Mendeleev was born in the village of Verkhnie Aremzyani, near Tobolsk in Siberia, to Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev (1783–1847) and…
The 60-inch cyclotron at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, in August 1939
The data sheet, showing stylus tracing and notes, that proved the discovery of mendelevium.
The element was named after Dmitri Mendeleev.