Apparently, one of the first English reports of Mendeleev's periodic table transliterated his name as Mendelejeff.

It's a perfectly valid transliteration and probably does a bit better a job of showing how it's pronounced than Mendeleev does, as long as you treat the j as /j/ and not /dʒ/, but it's just amusing that it basically could be shortened to Jeff. You know, Jeff, the periodic table guy.

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