Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, born 1834 in the village of Verkhnie Aremzyani, was a Russian chemist, and the first to event the world-known periodic table of elements, which serves a distinctive and useful purpose in science today. Using his table, not only did he account for the elements which exisited in his time, but also elements and their properties yet to be discovered.  After becoming a teacher, Mendeleev penned Principles of Chemistry, the most clear-cut and definitive textbook of his time,and in 1869, presented his new information to the Russian Chemical Society, in a presentation entitled The Dependence between the Properties of the Atomic Weights of the Elements, where he desribed the elements in detail. Months after publishing his table, a seperate scientist by the name of Meyer came out with a design virtually the same, although there is some speculation, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev is more formally known as the creator of the Periodic Table.