T he periodic table stares down from the walls of just about every chemistry lab. The credit for its creation generally goes to Dimitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist who in 1869 wrote out the known ...

Russian chemist Dmitry Mendeleev is credited with developing the basis for the modern periodic table in 1869. In a recent paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry, Zahed Allahyari and Artem ...