Quotes About Mendeleyev

What Mendeleyev was looking for amongst the elements appeared to be something very similar: a pattern listing the elements

Mendeleyev had realized that when the elements were listed in order of their atomic weights, their properties repeated in a series of periodic intervals. For this reason, he named his discovery the Periodic Table of the Elements.

In 1981 the American physicist Murray Gell-Mann, inspired by Mendeleyev's example, came up with a classification table for subatomic particles, which he named the eightfold way.