The records show that Mendeleev discovered the periodic system on 17 February 1869. In fact, he was ill at the time so his colleague Nikolai Menschutkin made the announcement on his behalf – on 6 ...

Russian scientists will hold the first experiments at the Super-Heavy Element Factory in Dubna near Moscow in April to synthesize the 114th and 115th elements of Mendeleev’s Periodic Table ...

Mrs Roberts: At its simplest, the periodic table is all the different elements arranged together in a chart. A Russian scientist called Dmitri Mendeleev produced one of the first practical ...

Mrs Roberts: At its simplest, the periodic table is all the different elements arranged together in a chart. A Russian scientist called Dmitri Mendeleev produced one of the first practical ...

The periodic table of elements is a landmark categorization developed in 1869 by the Russian chemist and inventor Dmitri ...

And perhaps there is no more fitting time in this series to pay our own tribute to Mendeleev, who is, after all, the man responsible for the periodic table on which the Chemistry in its element ...

February 7 is National Periodic Table Day, when we celebrate the efforts of scientists over the centuries to figure out how different elements ...