Mendeleev wrote the atomic weight and the properties of each element on a card. ... He later recalled, “I saw in a dream, a table, where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.” (Strathern, 2000) He named his discovery the “periodic table of the elements.”

What was Mendeleev's dream about the periodic table?

weights. He later reported, 'I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, 1 immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper. Only in one place did a correction later seem necessary. ' As a result of this dream, the periodic table of the elements was created."

Who Dreamt the periodic table?

Eliot called idea-incubation — one February evening, after a wearying day of work, Mendeleev envisioned his periodic table in a dream.