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Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist known for formulating the periodic law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements. He used the periodic law not only to correct the then-accepted properties of some known elements, such as the valence and atomic weight of uranium, but also to predict the properties of three elements that were yet to be discovered. The synthetic element mendelevium is named in his honor.
science · Russian chemist (1834–1907) · chemist · physicist · university teacher · economist · also Dmitri Mendeleev, Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev, Dmitri Mendeleyev, Dmitri Mendeleiev, Dmitry Mendeleyev
Born 27 January 1834 · Died 20 January 1907 · Q9106
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New Scientist: Dmitri Mendeleev
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The Hindu: Google doodle marks Dmitri Mendeleev's 182nd birth anniversary
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Shortly after Mendeleev's death, one of his nieces published Family Chronicles
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Died 1907-01-20.
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Mendeleev died at the age of 72 in Saint Petersburg from influenza
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Were again frustrated by the absolute opposition of Arrhenius
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Won Copley Medal (1905).
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Mendeleev was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and received three nominations
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Awarded Order of Saint Stanislaus, 1st class.
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Awarded Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class.
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Awarded Order of Saint Anna, 1st class.
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Awarded Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class.
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Awarded Order of the White Eagle.
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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Awarded Knight of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky.
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Awarded Order of St. Vladimir, 1st class.
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Studied at Saint Petersburg State University.
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Studied at Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology.
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Dmitri Mendeleev, the greatest scientist in all Russia, received the decree to set the Imperial quality standard for Russian vodka and the 'Russian Standard' was born" Others cite "the highest quality of Russian vodka ap
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1892).
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Mendeleev organized its manufacture
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Was appointed director of Russia's Central Bureau of Weights and Measures, and led the way to standardize fundamental prototypes and measurement procedures
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And in 1893 he was appointed director of the Bureau of Weights and Measures, a post which he occupied until his death
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Became head of the Archive of Weights and Measures in Saint Petersburg, and evolved it into a government bureau the following year, but that institution was charged with standardising Russian trade weights and measuring
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Helped convince the Ministry of Finance to impose temporary tariffs with the aim of fostering Russian infant industries
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Awarded Faraday Lectureship Prize (1889).
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A local librarian published an article in the Tobolsk newspaper where he claimed that Yakov was a baptized Teleut, an ethnic minority known as "white Kalmyks" at the time
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Was elected as an honorary member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
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Won Davy Medal (1882).
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Met Anna Ivanovna Popova and began courting her; in 1881 he proposed to her and threatened suicide if she refused
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And 1886 respectively, fitting perfectly into the two missing spaces
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Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1874).
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Mendeleev wrote Principles of Chemistry (Russian: Основы химии, romanized: Osnovy khimii), which became the definitive textbook of its time
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Career landmark: full professor (1865–1890).
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Became a Doctor of Science for his dissertation "On the Combinations of Water with Alcohol"
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Describing 28 elements classified by their valence, but with no predictions of new elements
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There were 56 known elements, with a new element being discovered at a rate of approximately one per year
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Career landmark: full professor (1863–1872).
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Awarded Demidov Prize (1862).
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Published a textbook named Organic Chemistry
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Anticipated Thomas Andrews' conception of the critical temperature of gases by defining the absolute boiling-point of a substance as the temperature at which cohesion and heat of vaporization become equal to zero and
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Returned to Saint Petersburg with fully restored health
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Career landmark: Privatdozent (1857–1865).
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Studied at Main Pedagogical Institute (1850–1855).
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Career landmark: senior professor (1855–1856).
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His mother took Mendeleev across Russia from Siberia to Moscow with the aim of getting Mendeleev enrolled at the Moscow University
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When Mendeleev was nine years old
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Born 1834-01-27.
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