Dmitri Mendeleev in 1897

Born : 8 February 1834(1834-02-08) Verhnie Aremzyani, Russian Empire Died : 2 February 1907 (aged 72) St. Petersburg, Russian Empire Nationality : Russian Fields : Chemistry, physics and adjacent fields Alma mater : Saint Petersburg University Notable students : Dmitri Konovalov, Gemilian, Valery, Baykov, Alexander Known for : Inventing the Periodic table of chemical elements Religious stance : Eastern Orthodox Christian Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (also romanized Mendeleyev or Mendeleef; Russian: ru-Dmitri_Mendeleev.ogg listen (helpinfo)) (8 February [O.S. 27 January] 1834 2 February [O.S. 20 January] 1907), was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is credited as being the creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements. Using the table, he predicted the properties of elements yet to be discovered.

Portrait of Monsieur Lavoisier and his Wife by Jacques-Louis David (ca. 1788)
Born : 26 August 1743(1743-08-26) Paris, France Died : 8 May 1794 (aged 50) Paris, France Influences : Guillaume-Franois Rouelle Religious stance : Roman Catholic Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26 August 1743 8 May 1794); French pronunciation: [twan l d la.vwazje]), the father of modern chemistry,[1] was a French noble prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology. He stated the first version of the law of conservation of mass,[2] recognized and named oxygen (1778) and hydrogen (1783), abolished the phlogiston theory, helped construct the metric system, wrote the first extensive list of elements, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature. He discovered that, although matter may change its form or shape, its mass always remains the same. Thus, for instance, if water is heated to steam, if salt is dissolved in water or if a piece of wood is burned to ashes, the total mass remains unchanged. He was also an investor and administrator of the "Ferme Gnrale" a private tax collection company; chairman of the board of the Discount Bank (later the Banque de France); and a powerful member of a number of other aristocratic administrative councils. All of these political and economic activities enabled him to fund his scientific research. At the height of the French Revolution he was accused by Marat of selling watered-down tobacco, and of other crimes, and was beheaded.

Henry G. J. Moseley
Born Died Nationality Fields Known for Influences : 23 November 1887 (1887-11-23) Weymouth, Dorset : 10 August 1915 (1915-08-11) (aged 27) Gallipoli, Turkey : British : Physics : Atomic number, Moseley's law : Ernest Rutherford

Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (23 November 188710 August 1915) was an English physicist. His main contributions to science were the quantitative justification of the previously empirical concept of atomic number, and Moseley's law. This law advanced chemistry by immediately sorting the elements of the periodic table in a more logical order. Moseley also advanced basic physics by providing independent support for the Bohr model of the Rutherford/Antonius Van den Broek nuclear atom containing positive nuclear charge equal to atomic number. With the outbreak of World War I, Moseley left Oxford University to enlist in the Royal Engineers. He was killed by a sniper during the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915, at the age of 27.

Johann Wolfgang Dbereiner Born December 13, 1780 Died March 24, 1849 Nationality German Fields Chemistry Known for Dbereiner's triads Dbereiner's lamp Johann Wolfgang Dbereiner (December 13, 1780 March 24, 1849) was a German chemist who is best known for work that foreshadowed the periodic law for the chemical elements.

Newlands was born in London and studied there at the Royal College of Chemistry. In 1860, he served as a volunteer with Giuseppe Garibaldi in his campaign to unify Italy (Newlands was of Italian descent on his mother's side). He set up in practice as an analytical chemist in 1864, and in 1868 became chief chemist in a sugar refinery, where he introduced a number of improvements in processing. Later he left the refinery and again set up as an analyst. Like many of his contemporaries, Newlands first used the terms 'equivalent weight' and 'atomic weight' without any distinction in meaning, and in his first paper in 1863 he used the values accepted by his predecessors. The incompleteness of a table he drew up 1864 attributed to the possible existence of additional, undiscovered elements. For example, he predicted the existence of germanium. In 1894, Newlands had a child by the name of Christopher Maddocks Newland