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= Demitri Mendeleev =

1834-1907 A Russian bear. years of work:1868-1870 []

Born the youngest of 14 children to a poor Russian family, Mendeleev received a rather standard primary education growing up. Through his early career he was a professor of science and chemistry at many prestigious universities all around Russia, receiving his doctorate in 1865. He married twice in his life and had 6 children between his wives. His contributions to modern science led to the naming of a crater after him on the moon and the 101 element on the periodic table: mendelevium.

Mendeleev is known for his table of elemements, which evolved into the modern periodic table used today. While other work on aranging the known elements was being conducted around the time that Mendeleev was working, mendeleev indepentantly found that when arranged in order of assending atomic weight he found that trends began to appear. useing a series of rules he outlined in a presentation he made to the Russian Chemical Society entitled //The Dependence between the Properties of the Atomic Weights of the Elements,// Mendeleev organised all known elements into a table, and based on the characteristics of the trend groups accuratly predicted traits the elements Gallium, Scandium, and Germanium. It is because of these predictions that he is given nearly all credit for the modern table, though many other scientists had similar work and findings.

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