Notable events took place on March 6 in history.
March 6, 1869: Mendeleev publishes the periodic table of the elements
Dmitry Mendeleev is a Russian chemist, who was the first to find the law and to classify chemical elements. On March 6, 1869, Mendeleev created the Periodic Table of the Elements, classifying the types of elements and organizing them according to a periodic process. In the 1871 final revision, Mendeleev left some blank spaces on his periodic table and predicted that these elements would be found in the future.
March 6, 1953: The structure of DNA was first discovered
The helix structure of DNA
In 1953, scientists James Watson and Francis Crick submitted their first paper on the structure of human DNA to nature. These two scientists were the first to mention the qu
