<P> The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev was the first scientist to make a periodic table similar to the one used today . Mendeleev arranged the elements by atomic mass , corresponding to relative molar mass . It is sometimes said that he played ' chemical solitaire ' on long train journeys , using cards with various facts about the known elements . On March 6 , 1869 , Mendeleev gave a formal presentation , The Dependence Between the Properties of the Atomic Weights of the Elements , to the Russian Chemical Society . In 1869 , the table was published in an obscure Russian journal and then republished in a German journal , Zeitschrift für Chemie . In it , Mendeleev stated that : </P>
<P> The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev was the first scientist to make a periodic table similar to the one used today . Mendeleev arranged the elements by atomic mass , corresponding to relative molar mass . It is sometimes said that he played ' chemical solitaire ' on long train journeys , using cards with various facts about the known elements . On March 6 , 1869 , Mendeleev gave a formal presentation , The Dependence Between the Properties of the Atomic Weights of the Elements , to the Russian Chemical Society . In 1869 , the table was published in an obscure Russian journal and then republished in a German journal , Zeitschrift für Chemie . In it , Mendeleev stated that : </P>
the first list of elements and their characteristics was written by
the first list of elements and their characteristics was written by
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev