This year we celebrate the 150 th anniversary of Mendeleev’s achievement in formulating the structure of the periodic table that we use today. He announced his structure in 1869, but the challenge of ...

Mendeleev’s work is the basis of the modern periodic table we use today. He is often referred to as the 'father of the periodic table', but he didn’t achieve a Nobel Prize for his work.

The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...