@sciencescandal.com🧪 Mendeleev left deliberate holes in the periodic table, then predicted what should fill them. 😂
Future chemists started finding the missing occupants.
How?
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Dmitri Mendeleev, creator of the Periodic Table, was nominated for the Nobel Prize 9 times but never won because a scientist he once criticised sat on the committee and blocked him every single time.
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No-one knows the petty board member, everyone knows Mendeleev.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:utkcibnhxdz3tvx7flgb6grn/bafkreifdku2uzbkgqjzv34iakkwyn5l5iglabfbviy327dxbm4sfr4j6um@png)