Dmitri Mendeleev - Chemistry
Zach Fluck
Chemistry Blog
Monday, February 25
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev was a Russian scientist born on February 8, 1834, and died in 190 7 of a flu. He was the chemist who created the first version of the periodic table and interests me because of his ability to predict properties of undiscovered elements with accuracy.
He was born in Verkhnie Aremzyani, a Russian province of Siberia. His family was unusually large, he was estimated to have 16 siblings, however the exact number is uncertain. At 16 years old, he moved to Saint Petersburg. He won a place at his father’s old college, where he trained to become a teacher.
in just 61 days he put his knowledge in a 500 page textbook called Organic Chemistry. This book won the Domidov Prize and put Mendeleev at the forefront of Russian chemical education. At this time, chemistry was a patchwork of observations and discoveries. Using his periodic table, Mendeleev predicted the existence and properties of new chemical elements. When these elements were discovered it only furthered Mendeleev’s achievements and proved his true scientific intelligence.
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