And even though there are other scientists who made contributions, it is Russian chemist and inventor Dmitri Mendeleev’s name that is always at the forefront. Mendeleev was the youngest of ...

At the middle of the 19th century, 63 chemical elements were known to science. Before Mendeleev’s discovery, attempts at arranging them in some logical way were made by Johann Doebereiner (1829 ...

He expounded this idea at the Karlsruhe Congress in Germany in 1860 – the first ever international chemistry conference. Among the many pioneering chemists in attendance was one Dmitri Ivanovich ...

They include: -- Civil War-era U.S. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman in 1820 -- Writer Jules Verne in 1828 -- Chemist Dmitri Mendeleev in 1834 -- Writer Kate Chopin in 1850 -- Actor Edith Evans in ...