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Mendeleev was the inventor of the periodic table. He organized all the known elements into the periodic table based on atomic number. He was also able to predict the existence â¦ of elements that had not yet been discovered based on gaps in the table he created.
Mendeleev's First Periodic Table. Dmitrii Mendeleev (1834-1907; see photo in Chemical Achievers at the Chemical Heritage Foundation) was born in Tobolsk, in Western Siberia. His chief contribution to chemistry was the establishment of the periodic system of elements. Mendeleev was one of a number of independent discoverers of the periodic law in the 1860s--that number ranging from one [Leicester 1948] to six [van Spronsen 1969] depending on the criteria one adopts.