CHEMIST

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 5,118,003 page views. His biography is available in 149 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 143 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 602. Before him are Alfred Nobel, and Louis Pasteur. After him are Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Irène Joliot-Curie, Robert Boyle, Amedeo Avogadro, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Svante Arrhenius, and Fritz Haber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Dmitri Mendeleev ranks 1. After him are Edgar Degas, Gottlieb Daimler, Ernst Haeckel, John Venn, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, William Morris, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, Léon Walras, August Weismann, Amilcare Ponchielli, and Jan Neruda. Among people deceased in 1907, Dmitri Mendeleev ranks 1. After him are Edvard Grieg, Klara Hitler, Sully Prudhomme, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Oscar II of Sweden, Henri Moissan, Hector Malot, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Alfred Jarry, Giosuè Carducci, and Pierre Janssen.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dmitri Mendeleev ranks 8 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Lenin (1870), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), Leo Tolstoy (1828), Vladimir Putin (1952), Yuri Gagarin (1934), and Mikhail Gorbachev (1931). After him are Anton Chekhov (1860), Peter the Great (1672), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), and Grigori Rasputin (1869).

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Among CHEMISTS In Russia

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

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