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Dmitri Ivanovich 8 February 1834 – 2 February 1907 O.S. 27 January 1834 – 20 January 1907) was a Russian chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law.
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2. Dmitri Mendeleev
• Dmitri Ivanovich 8 February 1834 – 2 February 1907 O.S. 27 January
1834 – 20 January 1907) was a Russian chemist and inventor. He
formulated the Periodic Law.
• created a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements, and
used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements
and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be
discovered.
4. Real Facts of Dmitri Mendeleev
• Sadly his father lost his eyesight and subsequently lost his job so his mother had to work and
endeavored to reinstate the family business of the glass factory previously abandoned.
• His father continued to deteriorate until he died when his son, Dmitri Mendeleev, was just
thirteen years of age.
• His mother at that point traveled from Siberia to Moscow and her aim was to ensure her son
received the best education possible. Unfortunately her first choice, the University of Moscow,
would not accept him. They moved on to St Petersburg to his father’s alma mater, the whole
family relocating to Saint Petersburg and he enrolled at the Main Pedagogical Institute in the year
of 1850.
• Between the years of 1859 and 1861 Dmitri Mendeleev concentrated on capilliarity of liquids as
well as the mechanics of the Spectroscope while in Heidelberg.
• Dmitri Mendeleev wrote his first book on the spectroscope in August of 1861
5. • In 1865 after presenting his dissertation “On the Combinations of Water and Alcohol” Dmitri
Mendeleev would become a Doctor of Science and achieved tenure by 1867.
• By 1905 Dmitri Mendeleev would be elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
and the Nobel Committee for Chemistry recommended that the Swedish Academy award Mendeleev
with the Novel Prize in Chemistry for his discovering of the periodic system in 1906.
• Two members of the board were opposed to Mendeleev’s recommendation and several other
committee members were easily swayed to vote for another having previous grudges against
Mendeleev for one reason or another. He lost out of Moissan and although he was nominated the
following year he was still not a recipient.
• Dmitri Mendeleev died in Saint Petersburg on February 2, 1907 from influenza at the age of 72.