INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

The most popular view that can be met in Belarusian streets on the 8th of March are people with flowers. It is the day when we celebrate spring, love, and devotion. And also it is the day when we commemorate the great achievements that were made by women: in science and politics, medicine and literature, human rights and pop culture. […]

DMITRY MENDELEEV PUBLISHED HIS PERIODIC TABLE 150 YEARS AGO

DMITRY MENDELEEV PUBLISHED HIS PERIODIC TABLE 150 YEARS AGO

Russian chemistry professor Dmitri Mendeleev published his periodic table in 1869. Mendeleev’s table, dated March 1 1869, was his first published version. He constructed his tables by listing the elements in rows or columns in order of atomic weight and starting a new row or column when the characteristics of the elements began to repeat.