1887: Intent on observing a solar eclipse, a celebrated Russian chemist uses a hot-air balloon to make a solo ascent above the clouds near Moscow, even though he has never been in a balloon before and ...

Credit for the periodic table of the elements generally goes to Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, but a specialist in the history and philosophy of chemistry says the Russian chemist probably peeked at the ...

The Russian chemist who created the periodic table of elements is also sometimes credited with another important invention: vodka. Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907) a Russian chemist who created ...

Popular myth credits the Russian chemist, who created the periodic table of elements, as the inventor of vodka. Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907) a Russian chemist who created the periodic table ...

A century and a half ago, a Russian chemistry professor published a classification of all the known elements, organized by atomic weight. Today, the system that he created for his students — plus some ...

Dmitri Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor who formulated the Periodic Law and the periodic table of elements. Mendeleev was born in the Siberian town of Tobolsk. His father died when ...

Every field of science has its favorite anniversary. For physics, it’s Newton’s Principia of 1687, the book that introduced the laws of motion and gravity. Biology celebrates Darwin’s On the Origin of ...

More than a thousand different versions of the periodic table have been created since Dmitri Mendeleev drew the first 150 years ago – but why is one version more familiar to us than practically every ...

Mendeleev’s bold predictions of 1871 had two glaring deficiencies: they were unsubstantiated, and they were not in the chemical tradition. The whole thing smacked of physics, and, as the chemist ...

Mankind has known materials such as gold, silver, mercury, iron, phosphorous, sulphur and others since antiquity. Alchemists tried making gold out of “base” metals — with no success. But we had to ...

Dmitri Mendeleev was the Russian scientist best known for creating the periodic table. Today’s quote of the day is by Dmitri Mendeleev. Learn its deeper meaning, why it still matters today, and how ...

PARIS, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientist Pan Jianwei on Friday became the first Chinese recipient of the UNESCO-Russia Mendeleev International Prize in the Basic Sciences for his pioneering ...