DR. DMITRI MENDELEEV
Episode 50
January 14, 2026
It's episode 50! Aarati tells the story of the Russian chemist who figured out a way to organize all the known (and unknown) elements into a table that ordered them by increasing atomic weight and grouped them into categories.
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