Western Culture Global Presents The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness. #76: Dmitri Mendeleyev (1834-1907) Dmitri Mendeleyev (1834-1907) was a Russian scientist whose greatest accomplishment was the stating of the Periodic Law and the development of the Periodic Table. The table is not merely a system of classifying, comparing and systematizing the chemical elements according to observed fact, but rather reflects a "law of nature" which can predict new facts and find errors in supposed facts. The table has widespread application not just in chemistry, but in physics, biology, engineering and industry. Mendeleev was one of the first modern-day scientists in that he did not rely solely on his own work but rather was in correspondence with scientists around the globe to receive data they had collected. Go to #77: Charles Darwin Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — Home Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Numerical Order Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Century Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Category
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