Author: Дмитрий Иванович Менделеев
Alternate names: Дмитрий Менделеев; Dmitriĭ Ivanovich Mendeleev; Dmitriǐ Ivanovich Mendeleev; Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev
Born: 8 February [O.S. 27 January] 1834
Died: 2 February [O.S. 20 January] 1907
Bio: Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (Russian: Дмитрий Иванович Менделеев) was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is best 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).