How to pronounce “mendeleev” in English

Dmitri Mendeleev was a Siberian genius chemist.

supposedly Mendeleev wakes up and writes it down as a finished system.

Russian chemist Mendeleev who dreamt up, we are told, the periodic table.

which was that Mendeleev was was trying to put in order all the elements, the the chemical building

So this is Dmitri Mendeleev who spent three years working on a chemistry textbook, driven crazy that he couldn't put it into more order.

But maybe the greatest scientific achievements in chemistry is Mendeleev's periodic table.

the real story, which is that actually Mendeleev had a publishing contract to write a two-volume intro to chemistry

Mendeleev had some advantages, but all of them got the periodic pattern.

The problem is that, in this thing, you have all the Mendeleev table of elements, all coming from different countries with producers,

And the problem with that telling is that it obscures the real secret to Mendeleev's success. Mendeleev had a publishing contract