Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

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Dmitri Mendeleev was a very important individual to our history. What he did revolutionized our understanding of the atom’s properties. He contributed his life to chemistry and his true dedication led him to an idea that changed its whole organization. He was a Russian chemist who made the first successful attempt to place the elements in order by classification. Leading Dmitri to create the periodic table and the periodic laws which helped others easily categorize and utilize the many elements. The table that he created most likely adorns every chemistry classroom today. This made Mendeleev a very interesting and inspiring man through his personal life, the periodic table, and his many achievements.
In the town of Tobolsk, Siberia (1834), Dmitri Mendeleev was born to Maria Dmitrievna Kornilier and Ivan Pavlovitch Mendeleev. Since he had a large family, Dmitri was the fourteenth and last child of his family chain. His father owned a gymnasium and his mother’s family were the major owners of a local paper and glass company. Unfortunately, Dmitri’s family went through a terrible time when Ivan died and his mother’s glass company burnt down when Dmitri was only thirteen. Although he no longer had a father, Dmitri still had two very important influences in his life, his mother and Bessargin (his brother in law). Because Dmitri was the youngest and all of his other siblings were well off, his mother, Maria, did Dmitri more favors than she did for her other children. She worked even harder to bring in the money to support Dmitri in his education. From then on, he started college at St. Petersburg and graduated (in 1856) with a major in science. (1)
In the late 1860’s, Dmitri then pursued the greatest achievement of his life, the periodic table. Separately from the atomic numbers of the elements, an arrangement of classification other than metal and non-metal was wanted. So Mendeleev found another way to categorize the element by finding their atomic mass. After...

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