WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev
    n 1: Russian chemist who developed a periodic table of the
         chemical elements and predicted the discovery of several
         new elements (1834-1907) [syn: Mendeleyev, Mendeleev,
         Dmitri Mendeleyev, Dmitri Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich
         Mendeleyev, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev]