Who created the periodic table and how it is organized
Who developed the modern periodic table.
Development of the periodic table
As we have seen, Mendeleev was not the first to attempt to find order within the elements, but it is his attempt that was so successful that it now forms the basis of the modern periodic table.
Mendeleev did not have the easiest of starts in life.
He was born at Tobolsk in 1834, the youngest child of a large Siberian family. His father died while he was young, and so his mother moved the family 1500 km to St. Petersburg, where she managed to get Dmitri into a “good school“, recognising his potential.
Mendeleev periodic law
In his adult life he was a brilliant scientist, rising quickly in academic circles. He wrote a textbook, Chemical Principles, because he couldn’t find an adequate Russian book.
Mendeleev discovered the periodic table (or Periodic System, as he called it) while attempting to organise the elements in February of 1869.
He did so by writing the properties of the elements on pieces of card and arranging and rearranging them until he rea
