Dmitri Mendeleev
8 February 1834 – 2 February 1907
Russian chemist who formulated the periodic law and created the periodic table of the elements, predicting elements not yet discovered.
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Graduated from the Main Pedagogical Institute in Saint Petersburg
1855
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Presented the periodic law to the Russian Chemical Society
6 March 1869
His table arranged the elements by atomic weight and left gaps for undiscovered ones.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Vindicated when the discovery of gallium confirmed his predictions
1875
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