Google doodles the 'father' of periodic table Dmitri Mendeleev on birth anniversary

Internet search giant Google has dedicated a Doodle to Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev on his 182nd birth anniversary. Born on February 8, 1834, Mendeleev is popularly known as the “Father of Periodic Table”.

He formulated the Periodic Law, created a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be discovered.

Mendeleev’s table, published in 1869, correctly organised the 56 known elements based on their atomic mass. While some of Mendeleev’s predictions were not accurate, he did give to the world the foundations of the Periodic Table that is used in classrooms worldwide today with some new additions.

The table was expanded and refined over the years with further discoveries. Its seventh row was finally completed in January – just weeks ahead of Mendeleev’s birth anniversary.

While Google’s final doodle shows the master himself with his vision of the Periodic Table, thanks to artist Robinson Wood who imagines Mendeleev in the act of setting down the logic of his table. There were other doodle ideas that did not make it. One of them shows Mendeleev with the element that he named after himself, Mendelevium (atomic number 101). Another illustration that did not make it to the final one, shows Mendeleev’s famous desk where he was often photographed.

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