What is Dmitri Mendeleev?
{{Infobox scientist |birth_name = Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev |image = DIMendeleevCab.jpg |caption = Dmitri Mendeleev in 1897 |birth_date = {{birth date|1834|2|8|df=yes}} |birth_place = Verkhnie Aremzyani, [[Russian Empire]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1907|2|2|1834|2|8|df=yes}} |death_place = [[St. Petersburg]], [[Russian Empire]] |nationality = [[Russians|Russian]] |fields = [[Chemistry]], physics and adjacent fields |workplaces = |alma_mater = [[Saint Petersburg University]] |doctoral_advisor = |academic_advisors = |doctoral_students = |notable_students = Dmitri Petrovich Konovalov, Valery Gemilian, Alexander Baykov |known_for = Formulating the [[Periodic table]] of chemical elements |influences = |influenced = |signature = <!--(filename only)-->}} [[File:Mendeleev law.jpg|thumb|right|Work in progress: one of the early versions]] '''Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev''' (born 8 February ([[Julian calendar|O.S.]] 27 January) 1834 near [[Tobolsk]] – 2 February (O.S. 20 January 20) 1907 in [[Saint Petersburg]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[chemist]] who created the [[periodic table]] of elements. Many of the predictions made in his periodic table (such as the properties of elements undiscovered at the time) were later proved correct by experiments. [[Chemical element]] 101 was named [[Mendelevium]] in his honor. == Life == Mendeleev was born in the village of Verkhnie Aremzyani, near Tobolsk in Siberia,to Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev and Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleeva ([[née]] Kornilieva). His grandfather was Pavel Maximovich Sokolov, a priest of [[Russian Orthodox Church]] from the [[Tver]] region.<ref>[http://www.mendcomm.org/Mendeleev.aspx Dmitriy Mendeleev: a short CV, and a story of life] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825073835/http://www.mendcomm.org/Mendeleev.aspx |date=2017-08-25 }}, mendcomm.org</ref> Ivan, with his brothers and sisters, got new family names while attending theologi