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Mendeleev, Dmitry (1834-1907) Russian chemist. One of the most unlikely success stories in the history of chemistry is that of Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev (also Mendel é ev, Mendeleef, and Mendeleeff). Mendeleev was born in Tobolsk in western Siberia on February 8, 1834.
The youngest of at least fourteen children, Dimitri Ivanovitch Mendeleev was born at Tobolsk, Siberia on 7th February 1834. His father Ivan, was the director of the local gymnasium,and his mother, Marya (born Marya Korniliev) came from a family that had introduced glass and paper making to Siberia. Ivan died when Dimitri was quite young and ...
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The universities of Kazan and St. Petersburg were the principal centers of chemical activities in Russia during the first half of the 19th century. Mendeleev worked under Aleksandr A. Voskresenskii, whom the Russians call the grandfather of Russian chemistry. Mendeleev's first scientific paper was "The Analysis of Finnish Allanite and Pyroxene," an...
After a brief stay at the Sorbonne, Mendeleev journeyed to Heidelberg University, where he organized his own laboratory. He concentrated on the problem of molecularcohesion as displayed in the phenomena of capillarity and surface tension. The results of his experiments were published in three papers: "The Capillary Properties of Liquids," "The Expa...
In 1861 Mendeleev resumed teaching chemistry at the University of St. Petersburg, the College of Engineering, and the Transport Institute. That year he wrote Organic Chemistry, Russia's first university manual on the subject. Two years later Mendeleev contracted an unhappy marriage with Feozva Nikitichna Leshcheva which lasted until 1876, when he m...
Mendeleev also showed a great interest in technology. In 1863 he was immersed in the problems of the Baku petroleum industry. He suggested a pipeline should be built to carry the oil from Baku to the Black Sea. He noted that the system of leasing oil-rich government-owned lands for a 4-year period tended to prevent large-scale investments in needed...
Mendeleev saw in science a valuable tool for remaking and modernizing Russia. He saw Russia gaining respectability in the community of nations through scientific activity benefiting mankind. And he saw in science the essential ingredient of the educated mind. However, he rejected science as a panacea for society's ills, believing that sciencemust b...
Although not a definitive study, Daniel Q. Posin, Mendeleyev: The Story of a Great Scientist (1948), is valuable for its broad treatment of Mendeleev's life and for its bibliography of his publications. There are many biographical sketches, but the one by Henry Leicester in Eduard Farber, ed., Great Chemists (1961), is most accurate and is based on...
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Mendeleef was the youngest of a large family, and was born in February, 1834, at Tobolsk. Here he obtained his primary education, afterward studying natural science at the University of St ...
Mendeleyev was born in 1834 in Tobolsk, Russia. His father was a teacher who died by the time Dmitri was a teenager, and his mother opened a glass factory in order to support the large family.
