1834 - 1907
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (sometimes transliterated as Mendeleyev or Mendeleef) (English: MEN-dəl-AY-əf; Russian: Дмитрий Иванович Менделеев, tr. Dmitriy Ivanovich Mendeleyev, IPA: [ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ mʲɪnʲdʲɪˈlʲejɪf] (listen); 8 February 1834 – 2 February 1907 [OS 27 January 1834 – 20 January 1907]) was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is best known for formulating the Periodic Law and creating a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dmitri Mendeleev has received more than 4,235,901 page views. His biography is available in 138 different languages on Wikipedia. Dmitri Mendeleev is the 3rd most popular chemist, the 8th most popular biography from Russia (up from 9th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Chemist.
Dmitri Mendeleev is most famous for creating the periodic table of elements.
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Among chemists, Dmitri Mendeleev ranks 3 out of 510. Before him are Louis Pasteur and Alfred Nobel. After him are Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Robert Boyle, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Amedeo Avogadro, Linus Pauling, Svante Arrhenius, and Fritz Haber.
1822 - 1895
HPI: 90.54
Rank: 1
1833 - 1896
HPI: 89.69
Rank: 2
1834 - 1907
HPI: 88.11
Rank: 3
1743 - 1794
HPI: 86.09
Rank: 4
1766 - 1844
HPI: 84.54
Rank: 5
1627 - 1691
HPI: 82.13
Rank: 6
721 - 815
HPI: 81.75
Rank: 7
1779 - 1848
HPI: 80.94
Rank: 8
1776 - 1856
HPI: 80.74
Rank: 9
1901 - 1994
HPI: 80.26
Rank: 10
1859 - 1927
HPI: 80.06
Rank: 11
1868 - 1934
HPI: 80.05
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1834, Dmitri Mendeleev ranks 1. After him are Edgar Degas, Gottlieb Daimler, Ernst Haeckel, William Morris, John Venn, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, Léon Walras, 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, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Hector Malot, Henri Moissan, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Alfred Jarry, Asaph Hall, and Giosuè Carducci.
1834 - 1907
HPI: 88.11
Rank: 1
1834 - 1917
HPI: 84.54
Rank: 2
1834 - 1900
HPI: 81.30
Rank: 3
1834 - 1919
HPI: 81.24
Rank: 4
1834 - 1896
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 5
1834 - 1923
HPI: 76.33
Rank: 6
1834 - 1904
HPI: 75.01
Rank: 7
1834 - 1890
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 8
1834 - 1910
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 9
1834 - 1914
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 10
1834 - 1886
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 11
1834 - 1903
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 12
1834 - 1907
HPI: 88.11
Rank: 1
1843 - 1907
HPI: 86.31
Rank: 2
1839 - 1907
HPI: 81.04
Rank: 3
1860 - 1907
HPI: 79.46
Rank: 4
1829 - 1907
HPI: 78.94
Rank: 5
1824 - 1907
HPI: 77.83
Rank: 6
1830 - 1907
HPI: 75.94
Rank: 7
1852 - 1907
HPI: 75.91
Rank: 8
1848 - 1907
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 9
1873 - 1907
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 10
1829 - 1907
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 11
1835 - 1907
HPI: 72.52
Rank: 12
Among people born in Russia, Dmitri Mendeleev ranks 8 out of 2,688. Before him are Vladimir Lenin (1870), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), Leo Tolstoy (1828), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Yuri Gagarin (1934), and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840). After him are Anton Chekhov (1860), Peter the Great (1672), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Vladimir Putin (1952), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), and Ivan the Terrible (1530).
1870 - 1924
HPI: 92.52
Rank: 2
1821 - 1881
HPI: 91.42
Rank: 3
1828 - 1910
HPI: 90.13
Rank: 4
1931 - Present
HPI: 89.08
Rank: 5
1934 - 1968
HPI: 88.58
Rank: 6
1840 - 1893
HPI: 88.38
Rank: 7
1834 - 1907
HPI: 88.11
Rank: 8
1860 - 1904
HPI: 88.01
Rank: 9
1672 - 1725
HPI: 87.89
Rank: 10
1799 - 1837
HPI: 87.86
Rank: 11
1952 - Present
HPI: 87.64
Rank: 12
1868 - 1918
HPI: 87.21
Rank: 13
1530 - 1584
HPI: 86.75
Rank: 14
Among chemists born in Russia, Dmitri Mendeleev ranks 1. After him are Valery Legasov (1936), Otto Wallach (1847), Ilya Prigogine (1917), Paul Karrer (1889), Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), Nikolay Semyonov (1896), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Alexander Butlerov (1828), Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841), and Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838).
1834 - 1907
HPI: 88.11
Rank: 1
1936 - 1988
HPI: 77.76
Rank: 2
1847 - 1931
HPI: 75.81
Rank: 3
1917 - 2003
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 4
1889 - 1971
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 5
1863 - 1944
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 6
1896 - 1986
HPI: 69.81
Rank: 7
1899 - 1986
HPI: 69.69
Rank: 8
1838 - 1904
HPI: 68.07
Rank: 9
1828 - 1886
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 10
1841 - 1910
HPI: 64.44
Rank: 11
1838 - 1906
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 12