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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…
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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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2026· 3 entries
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jagranjosh.com: Quote of the Day by Dmitri Mendeleev: “There is nothing in this world…”
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2023· 1 entry
The New Indian Express: Behind the science | Dmitri Mendeleev: It’s elementary
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2021· 1 entry
The Hindu: Know the scientist: Dmitri Mendeleev
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2019· 2 entries
New Scientist: Dmitri Mendeleev
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Daily Express: Periodic table is 150: Who was Dmitri Mendeleev - how it could have looked REVEALED
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2016· 4 entries
The Mirror: Who was Dmitri Mendeleev? Google Doodle marks 182nd birthday of the creator of the Periodic Table
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SiliconRepublic: Dmitri Mendeleev Google Doodle celebrates father of the periodic table
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Deccan Chronicle: Google marks chemist Dmitri Mendeleev's 182nd birthday
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The Hindu: Google doodle marks Dmitri Mendeleev's 182nd birth anniversary
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2000· 1 entry
“Lecture to the Russian Chemical Society as quoted in the article "Peering Into the Unseen—What Is Revealed?" in Awake! magazine (22 August 2000)”
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1908· 1 entry
Shortly after Mendeleev's death, one of his nieces published Family Chronicles
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1907· 17 entries
Died 1907-01-20.
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“To burn oil!.. You can fuel with money as well.”
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Were again frustrated by the absolute opposition of Arrhenius
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Mendeleev died at the age of 72 in Saint Petersburg from influenza
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“Lo que la ciencia siembra, la gente lo cosechará.”
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“Cuando los elementos están dispuestos en columnas verticales de acuerdo con el incremento de su peso atómico, de modo que las líneas horizontales contengan elementos análogos, de nuevo según el aumento de peso atómico, se produce una ordenación a partir de la cual se pueden sacar varias conclusiones generales.”
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“In science we must all submit not to what seems to us attractive from one point of view or another, but to what represents an agreement between theory and experiment.”
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“Si todos los elementos químicos se disponen en el orden de sus pesos atómicos, se obtiene la repetición periódica de las propiedades. Esto se expresa en la ley de periodicidad.”
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“All'inizio del XX secolo il chimico Dimitrij Mendeleev, passato alla storia soprattutto per aver concepito la tavola periodica degli elementi, sostenne l'idea che lo spazio fosse costituito da particelle un milione di volte più piccole dell'atomo di idrogeno, e che gli atomi non fossero che combinazioni di tali particelle. (Jean-Pierre Luminet)”
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“I suppose when my unknown elements are found, more people will pay us attention.”
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“I have no need of proof. The laws of nature, unlike the laws of grammar, admit of no exception.”
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“We should still expect to discover many unknown simple bodies; for example, those similar to aluminum and silicon, elements with atomic weights of 65 to 75.”
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“I wish to establish some sort of system not guided by chance but by some sort of definite and exact principle.”
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“Todo el orgullo de un maestro son los alumnos, la germinación de las semillas sembradas.”
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“Sin trabajo no hay talento excepcional ni genios.”
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“Doctor, you have science, I have faith.--to his physician, this was possibly a Jules Verne quote.”
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“In sua presenza non si ha paura, ma si è sempre inquieti. (Aleksandr Aleksandrovič Blok)”
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1905· 2 entries
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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1894· 1 entry
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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1892· 5 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1892).
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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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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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Mendeleev organized its manufacture
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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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1891· 1 entry
Helped convince the Ministry of Finance to impose temporary tariffs with the aim of fostering Russian infant industries
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1889· 5 entries
Awarded Faraday Lectureship Prize (1889).
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Was elected as an honorary member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
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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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“The Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements" Journal of the Chemical Society, 55, 634-56 (1889) Faraday Lecture delivered before the Chemical Society Fellows, Theatre of the Royal Institution (June 4th, 1889)”
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“Faraday Lecture, the Royal Institution, London (1889) as quoted by Leon Gray, The Basics of the Periodic Table (2013)”
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1882· 1 entry
Won Davy Medal (1882).
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1876· 1 entry
Met Anna Ivanovna Popova and began courting her; in 1881 he proposed to her and threatened suicide if she refused
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1875· 1 entry
And 1886 respectively, fitting perfectly into the two missing spaces
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1874· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1874).
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1867· 1 entry
Mendeleev wrote Principles of Chemistry (Russian: Основы химии, romanized: Osnovy khimii), which became the definitive textbook of its time
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1865· 2 entries
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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1864· 1 entry
Describing 28 elements classified by their valence, but with no predictions of new elements
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1863· 2 entries
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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1862· 1 entry
Awarded Demidov Prize (1862).
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1861· 2 entries
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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Published a textbook named Organic Chemistry
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1857· 2 entries
Returned to Saint Petersburg with fully restored health
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Career landmark: Privatdozent (1857–1865).
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1855· 2 entries
Studied at Main Pedagogical Institute (1850–1855).
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Career landmark: senior professor (1855–1856).
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1849· 1 entry
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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1843· 1 entry
When Mendeleev was nine years old
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1834· 1 entry
Born 1834-01-27.
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