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| | Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Mendeleev, |
 | | He is famous for his formulation (1869) of the periodic law and the invention of the periodic table, a classification of the elements; with Lothar Meyer, who had independently reached similar conclusions, he was awarded the Davy medal in 1882. |
 | | He was a professor of chemistry at the University of St. Petersburg (186790) and later served as director of Russia's bureau of weights and measures. |
 | | He taught at Breslau, Karlsruhe, and Tübingen (from 1876) and is known especially for his work in the development of the periodic law, for which, with Mendeleev, he received the Davy medal in 1882. |
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