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Dmitri Mendeleev

A portrait of Dmitri Mendeleev, a bearded man dressed in formal attire with a bow tie, set against a dark background.

Russian chemist (1834–1907), the youngest of more than a dozen siblings raised by a widowed mother who walked him across the country to enrol him in university. He held the chair of general chemistry at Saint Petersburg, wrote a celebrated textbook called The Principles of Chemistry, and consulted for the Russian state on everything from petroleum to standard weights. The periodic table came out of revising that textbook.

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