In 1871, a hot-tempered Russian scientist called Dmitri Mendeleev laid out the most effective grouping of chemical elements.

A Russian scientist called Dmitri Mendeleev produced one of the first practical periodic tables in the nineteenth century. The modern periodic table is based closely on the ideas he used.

In March, it will be 150 years since the Russian scientist, Dmitri Mendeleev, took all of the known elements and arranged them into a table. Most of his ideas have stood the test of time ...

Many scientists worked on the problem of organizing the elements, but Dmitri Mendeleev published his first version of the periodic table in 1869, and is most often credited as its inventor. Since then ...

A Russian scientist called Dmitri Mendeleev produced one of the first practical periodic tables in the nineteenth century. The modern periodic table is based closely on the ideas he used.