DMITRI MENDELEEV

BACKGROUND INFO👦

• Date of birth: February 8, 1834
• Place of birth: Russian empire
• Date of death: February 2, 1907
• Field of science: chemistry, physics, and adjacent fields.
• He was born in a village of Verknie Aremzyani

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CHILDHOOD

• Dmitri was raised as an orthodox Christian
• He has 4 siblings
• His father Ivan Pavloich Mendeleev, was a teacher of fine arts, politics and philosophy. He is also blind
• His mother Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleeva, worked at her family's restored glass factory.
• Dmitri won a noble prize the Davy metal.

EDUCATION

• He attended the main pedagogical institute in 1850.
• Dmitri worked on the capillarity of liquids and the workings of the spectroscope in Heidelberg.

SCIENCE CAREER

• Dmitri was known for formulating the periodic table of chemical.
• He wrote his first book on the spectroscope.
• The crater Mendeleev on the moon, as well as element 101 are named after him.

CHALLENGES HE FACED

• Dmitri wasn't accepted to Moscow.
• He got married twice and has 5 children

HOW DID THE WORLD BENEFITED FROM HIS WORK?

• Dmitri discovered more about the periodic table.
• We are now studying the periodic table in school.

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WAS HIS WORK RECOGNIZED?

• Well of course, we use the periodic table.
• He has also won several prizes for him work.