I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required.
I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.
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Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist born in 1834 who created the periodic table of elements in 1869, predicting the properties of then-undiscovered elements. His framework remains the organizing principle of chemistry.
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