Dmitri Mendeleev and the Atomic Theory

1. Dmitri Mendeleev
And his Creation of the Periodic Table

3. • Dimitri Mendeleev was born in Tobolsk, Russia on
February 8, 1834. He had a large family, consisting of
him, his parents, and as many as sixteen siblings.
Unfortunately, his father died when he was thirteen.

4. • At 21, Dmitri got a job
as a science teacher.
Soon, he returned to
college and got a
degree in chemistry in
1856. Then, to pursue
chemistry, he moved
to Germany to
continue his research
and got to work with
Robert Bunsen, the
creator of the Bunsen
burner.

5. • After attending his first official scientific debate,
Mendeleev was inspired to write a book. He called
it Organic Chemistry, and it sold well. He later
wrote a sequel called the Principles of Chemistry.
• Mendeleev still felt the need to improve Russian
chemistry, but he also felt that the elements were
too disorganized. This led him to try and organize
the elements that he wrote on cards and moved
around, trying to find some correlation. He fell
asleep, and when he woke up, he found exactly
what was needed.

7. • Mendeleev won
many awards,
both for his books
and his
advancements in
chemistry. He won
two important
ones in particular,
the Copley Medal
in 1905 and the
Demidov Prize, in
1862.

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