Mendeleev remarkable scientist’s 182 birth anniversary

Russian chemist and inventor Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, popularly known as the “Father of Periodic Table”, on his 182 birth anniversary. Born on 8^th February 1834 in Siberia into a large and well-off family, received a good education at the Institute of Pedagogy and soon after graduation his work in spectroscopy and the capillary action of liquids. Mendeleev formulated the Periodic Law by creating the periodic table of elements ordered by their atomic number in horizontal rows, which he called groups, and by their properties ( specifically Electron valence) that he called periods and used it to correct the properties of 63 known elements based on their atomic mass and also to predicted the properties of the eight elements to be discovered in the future.

Mendeleev’s table published in 1869, was expanded over the years with further discoveries.