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Dmitri Mendeleev Accomplishments

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Dmitri Mendeleev once had a dream after he, passed out, while working on his element cards about what his future periodic table would look like, and once he woke up, he miraculously fulfilled his lifelong dream and finished the periodic table. Dmitri Mendeleev was a very important man who changed history forever; his early life played a big role in his life. Dmitry was born February 8, 1834, in Tobolsk, Siberia. His birthplace was a vast, frozen region of Asiatic Russia. His dad always had it rough. When Mendeleev was little, his father, who was a school teacher in his hometown went blind and lost his job. His mother tried to support the family by building her own glassworks business in the town tearby. His mother's glassworks factory burnt down in 1848. Later after that happened, his …show more content…

His first life accomplishment was about a book. At age twenty-seven, he released a five hundred page textbook called Organic Chemistry. The book won Demidov prize and put him in front of Russian chemical education. In 1867, at age thirty three, he was awarded Chair of General Chemistry. Everybody admired that he changed a difficult branch of chemistry into a logical science. His nomination for the 1906 Nobel Prize failed by one vote. In 1876, he was officially named Professor of General Chemistry at the University of St. Perersburg. After resigning in 1890, he was officially named Director of Bureau of Weights where he stayed until his death in 1907. In 1905, the British Royal Society gave him the Copley Medal, its highest honor! Also in 1905, he was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Mendeleev’s law was soon discovered after those three elements were found. Not surprisingly, he was remembered as a brilliant scholar, an inspiring teacher, and an amazing writer. He next began a book for organic chemistry. His books, Principles of Chemistry, with two volumes, became standard until the early 20th

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