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Dmitri Mendeleev

1834 - 1907

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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (sometimes romanized as Mendeleyev, Mendeleiev, or Mendeleef; English: MEN-dəl-AY-əf; Russian: Дмитрий Иванович Менделеев, romanized: Dmitriy Ivanovich Mendeleyev, IPA: [ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ mʲɪnʲdʲɪˈlʲejɪf] ; 8 February [O.S. 27 January] 1834 – 2 February [O.S. 20 January] 1907) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dmitri Mendeleev has received more than 5,055,984 page views. His biography is available in 143 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 138 in 2019). Dmitri Mendeleev is the 3rd most popular chemist, the 8th most popular biography from Russia and the most popular Russian Chemist.

Dmitri Mendeleev is most famous for creating the periodic table of elements.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Dmitri Mendeleev ranks 3 out of 509. Before him are Louis Pasteur and Alfred Nobel. After him are Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Robert Boyle, Irène Joliot-Curie, Amedeo Avogadro, Svante Arrhenius, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, and Fritz Haber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Dmitri Mendeleev ranks 1. After him are Edgar Degas, Ernst Haeckel, Gottlieb Daimler, John Venn, William Morris, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Léon Walras, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, August Weismann, Amilcare Ponchielli, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Among people deceased in 1907, Dmitri Mendeleev ranks 1. After him are Edvard Grieg, Sully Prudhomme, Klara Hitler, Oscar II of Sweden, Henri Moissan, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Hector Malot, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Alfred Jarry, Robert I, Duke of Parma, and Asaph Hall.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dmitri Mendeleev ranks 8 out of 3,262. Before him are Vladimir Lenin (1870), Vladimir Putin (1952), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), Leo Tolstoy (1828), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), and Yuri Gagarin (1934). After him are Peter the Great (1672), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Anton Chekhov (1860), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840).

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Among CHEMISTS In Russia

Among chemists born in Russia, Dmitri Mendeleev ranks 1. After him are Otto Wallach (1847), Valery Legasov (1936), Ilya Prigogine (1917), Paul Karrer (1889), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), Nikolay Semyonov (1896), Alexander Butlerov (1828), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841), and Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838).

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