Monday, March 06, 2006

Happy Anniversary, Dmitri!

Thanks to Wikipedia, I now know that today is the anniversary of Dmitri Mendeleev (Russian: Дмитрий Иванович Менделеев, Dmitriy Ivanovich Mendeleyev) presenting his Periodic Table of Elements to the Russian Chemical Society in 1869. Well done Dmitri!

You can read more about this fascinating man here.

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