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Mendelevium is a radio active atom that was obtained by nuclear fusion techniques. It does not occur in nature.

What the name means: Mendelevium was named after the Russian chemist, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev who proposed the first version of the periodic table in 1869.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)  temporarily named the new element Unnilunium, with the symbol Unu. In 1997 the IUPAC approved the name mendelevium, symbol Md.

Who made mendelevium?: Albert Ghiorso, Glenn Theodore Seaborg and their co-workers at the Berkeley Laboratory of the University of California, USA in 1955.

About  mendelevium: Mendelevium was made by  bombarding einsteinium atoms with a (alpha) particles (helium nuclei). Only a few atoms of mendelevium have ever been made.