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Mendeleyev

/ mɪndɪˈljejɪf /

noun

  1. MendeleyevDmitri Ivanovich18341907MRussianSCIENCE: chemist Dmitri Ivanovich (ˈdmitrij iˈvanəvitʃ). 1834–1907, Russian chemist. He devised the original periodic table of the elements (1869)
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Mendeleyev dutifully completed his studies and eventually landed a position at the local university.

State Department said it lifted sanctions imposed in 1999 against the Dmitri Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology and the Moscow Aviation Institute.

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As to immorality, it is not people like Mendeleyev but poets, abbots, and personages regularly attending Embassy churches, who have the reputation of being perverted debauchees, libertines, and drunkards.

Even so, thanks to Mendeleyev’s invention, chemistry was now on a firm footing.

Mendeleyev’s breakthrough was to see that the two could be combined in a single table.

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