Stream of consciousness rationale: This is the relevant information: The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev was the first scientist to make a periodic table similar to the one used today.
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Q: The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev was the first scientist to make a periodic table similar to the one used today. Mendeleev arranged the elements by atomic mass, corresponding to relative molar mass. It is sometimes said that he played' chemical solitaire' on long train journeys, using cards with various facts about the known elements. On March 6, 1869, Mendeleev gave a formal presentation, The Dependence Between the Properties of the Atomic Weights of the Elements, to the Russian Chemical Society. In 1869, the table was published in an obscure Russian journal and then republished in a German journal, Zeitschrift fur Chemie. In it, Mendeleev stated that:

Answer this question based on the passage: the first list of elements and their characteristics was written by?
A: Dmitri Mendeleev