State whether the following statement is true or false: In $1913$,Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev showed that the atomic number of an element is a more fundamental property than its atomic mass.

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(FALSE) The statement is False. It was Henry Moseley,not Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev,who demonstrated in $1913$ that the atomic number of an element is a more fundamental property than its atomic mass. Mendeleev's periodic law was based on atomic mass.

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