In 1955 the usual suspects from Berkely
got together with an Actinide plan
to bombard some Einsteinium with alpha particles
and name the resulting metal after the man

The man, The man, Mendeleev's The man
badder than Prince Albert in a can
Seaborg and Lacoque don't got what Dimitri's got
Because Dimitri Mendeleev's the freakin' man

Most Siberians from Tobolsk in 1834
had very little to look forward to
but the thirteenth surviving child of seventeen total kids
developed the periodic table for me and you

The Man, The Man, Mendeleev's The Man
recovered from TB in the Crimean
Einstein and Fermi they each get blown away
Cuz Dimitri Mendeleev's the freakin' man

So when the Berkely boys cranked out an Actinide
that clearly had no use or application
they put their heads together and decided to give props
to the father of element classification

THE MAN, THE MAN, Mendeleev's THE MAN
introduced the Russians to the Metr'c System
Bacon, Curie, and Newlands are really just peons
Cuz Dimitri Mendeleev's the freakin MAN!

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