发现元素周期律,并且初步以比较完整的表式将其具体化起来的乃是德米特里·伊凡诺维奇·门捷列夫,他于1854年2月8日诞生在西伯利亚的托波尔斯克城的一个中学校长的家里。他出生后不久,其父就离开了人世,其母是一位异常能干的妇人,不管生活多么困难,也要送孩子们上学,把他们教养成为有文化的人。 It was Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeliev who discovered the elemental periodic law and initially embodied it in a more complete form. He was born on February 8, 1854 in Siberia. The home of a school principal in Polsk City. Shortly after he was born, his father left the world. His mother was an exceptionally capable woman. No matter how difficult life was, she had to send the children to school and train them as literate people.