14th March 2016 by What's What Team

Creator of the Periodic Table – Famous everywhere except Russia

Dmitri Mendeleev was not a prophet in Russia because the Tsar did not like his liberal politics. He was not elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences, but in the rest of the world his name was magic.

#Chemistry#Dmitri Mendeleev#Liberal views#Periodic Table#Russia#Russian Academy of Sciences#Tsar