5.3K views · 514 reactions | Dmitri Mendeleev was born #OnThisDay in 1834. He was a Russian chemist and inventor who formulated the Periodic Law and created the earliest example of a periodic table. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1892, and won both our Davy and Copley Medals. | The Royal Society | Facebook

8.9K views · 106 reactions | In 1849, a 15-year-old boy named Dmitri Mendeleev walked over 1,200 miles through the Russian winter sick with tuberculosis and penniless, just to chase an education. Denied entry into Moscow’s university, he persevered in St. Petersburg, where he graduated at the top of his class. Two decades later, he changed science forever by creating the first periodic table of the elements. | Ancient History Revived | Facebook

In 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev created the framework that became the modern periodic table, leaving gaps for elements that were yet to be discovered. | National Museum of Nuclear Science & History | Facebook