Chemist
1834 - 1907
Russian chemist who created the periodic table of elements, predicting the existence and properties of elements that had not yet been discovered. His work organized all known chemical knowledge.
“There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.”
Dmitri Mendeleev
“Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences - and we cannot predict what they will be.”
Dmitri Mendeleev
“It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order.”
Dmitri Mendeleev
“Without order, there is chaos.”
Dmitri Mendeleev