Russian Contribution to the Periodic System

Abstract

For 50 years, scientists around the world have been searching for the relationship between the mass of atoms and the properties of elements, until the Russian scientist D.I. Mendeleev, having created the Periodic Table and formulated the Periodic Law, did complete this search. The discoveries of new chemical elements predicted by D.I. Mendeleev had soon followed and confirmed the fundamental importance of his Periodic law as the basic law of natural sciences. The works on the synthesis of transuranium and superheavy elements with serial numbers 113-118, been carried out by the scientists of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia) during the past 50 years, are the indisputable evidence of the validity of the Law of Periodicity of chemical elements and the proof of the Russian science triumph.