Google marks Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev’s 182nd b`day

Google today celebrated the 182nd birthday of Russian chemist and inventor Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev with a doodle. He didn’t stop just there, but went on to predict the properties of five of these elements and their compounds.

Mendeleev, who was born on 8 February, 1834 in the Russian province of Siberia, published his table in 1869.

Three of them were discovered during his lifetime – gallium (1875), scandium (1879) and germanium (1886).

After creation of periodic table, Mendeleev spent many years teaching chemistry at higher education level and researching the thermal expansion materials and the nature of petroleum. So how did he discover the Periodic Table? The Periodic Table also enabled to guess certain characteristic properties of elements from their atomic masses.

For example, a reactive non-metal was directly followed by a very reactive light metal, then a less reactive light metal.

After him was also named mendelevium, which is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Md (formerly Mv) and the atomic number 101.

He died of flu in Saint Petersburg at the age of 72.