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Editorial

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 16, 1 (1 January 2009) | doi:10.1038/nsmb0109-1

Evolving the discussion

In high school chemistry class, we are all made aware of the unquestionable insight of the great Russian chemist Mendeleev. The genius of Mendeleev, who organized the elements on the basis of unifying properties and atomic weight, thus generating a 'periodic table of elements', is discussed as fact.