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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev



Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich (1834–1907), Russian chemist who formulated (1869) the Periodic Law, stating that the properties of elements vary periodically with increasing atomic weight. This work enabled him to draw up the Periodic Table.



See also: Chemistry; Periodic table.

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