GROUP 3 JANUARY 12, 2022

DMITRI
MENDELEEV

GEN
CHEM
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 Died:
 February 2, 1907 (aged 72) St. Petersburg Russia

GROUP 3 JANUARY 12, 2022

DMITRI
M ENDELEEV

Born: February 8, 1834 in Tobolsk, Russia

Died: February 2, 1907 ( age 72) in St.
Petersburg, Russia

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.
D M I T R I ME N D E L E E V ON P E RI O DI C TABLE
• On 17 February 1869, Russian chemist
Dmitri Mendeleev jotted down the symbols
for the chemical elements, putting them in
order according to their atomic weights
and inventing the periodic table.
• He wrote down the sequence in such a
way that they ended up grouped on the
page according to known regularities or
‘periodicities’ of behavior.
• It was perhaps the greatest breakthrough
in the history of chemistry.
• Mendeleev was predicting the properties of
three elements – gallium, scandium and
germanium – that had not then been
discovered.
• So convinced was he of the soundness of
his periodic law that he left gaps for these
elements in his table.
• Within twenty years, all three had been
found, and their properties confirmed his
predictions almost exactly .
D M I T R I ME N D E L E E V ON P E RI O DI C TABLE

• It was due to Mendeleev’s genius that the

• He was the first to publish a periodic table
Periodic Table was popularized in the
similar to the one we use today and is
scientific community and hence he is
credited for discovering the Periodic law.
regarded as the Father of the Periodic
Table.

• More importantly, he put the elements in

their right places in his periodic table
• The subsequent proof of many of his
correctly pointing out that their atomic
predictions within his lifetime brought fame to
weights had been measured incorrectly;
Mendeleev as the founder of the periodic law.
and brilliantly predicted the existence and
properties of yet undiscovered elements.
D M I T R I M E ND E LE E V O N P E RI ODI C TABLE
• Mendeleev is often mistakenly called the
inventor or the creator of the periodic table.
• Mendeleev is perhaps the most important
contributor to the development of the periodic
table, he did not create it from scratch. Instead,
Mendeleev improved upon the existing form of the
periodic table in a novel way, turning an idea into
a functioning, ingenious tool for categorizing
elements.
• His newly formulated law was announced
before the Russian Chemical Society in
March 1869 with the statement “elements
arranged according to the value of their
atomic weights present a clear periodicity of
properties.”
• Mendeleev’s law allowed him to build up a
systematic table of all the 70 elements then known.
He had such faith in the validity of the periodic law
that he proposed changes to the generally accepted
values for the atomic weight of a few elements and
predicted the locations within the table of unknown
elements together with their properties.
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HE WAS FIRST TO PUBLISH A

1
MAJOR PERIODIC TABLE AKIN TO
THE MODERN ONE.

C O N T R IB U T IO N S DMITRI MENDELEEV
OF DMITRI 2 INDEPENDENTLY DISCOVERED
THE PERIODIC LAW.

MENDELEEV HE CORRECTLY PREDICTED THAT

3 ATOMIC WEIGHTS OF SOME
ELEMENTS HAD BEEN
4 INCORRECTLY CALCULATED.
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5
MAJOR MENDELEEV CORRECTLY
PREDICTED THE EXISTENCE, AND
4
C O N T R IB U T IO N S 6
PROPERTIES, OF YET
UNDISCOVERED ELEMENTS.
OF DMITRI
DMITRI MENDELEEV I S
MENDELEEV 5 CONSIDERED THE FATHER OF
THE PERIODIC TABLE.
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