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1. DMITRI
MENDELEEV
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2. FACTS ABOUT DMITRI MENDELEEV
• Name: Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev.
• Birth date: February 8, 1834.
• Birthplace: Tobolsk, Russia.
• Family : father(Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev) mother (Mariya
Dmitriyevna Kornileva) sister (Masha Mendeleeva).
• Spouses: Feozva Nikitichna(former spouse),Anna
Ivanova(spouse).
• Education : Saint Petersburg State University.
• Death : at the age of 72 he died in Saint Petersburg, Russia on
February 2, 1907.

3. INTRODUCTION• Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
was a Russian chemist and
inventor. He was the
inventor of periodic table; he
is the most important
contributor to the
development of the periodic
table. His version of the
periodic table organized
elements into rows
according to their atomic
mass and into columns
based on chemical and
physical properties. His
periodic table became widely
accepted because he
predicted the characteristics
and placement of elements
which were yet to be
discovered.
A PERIODIC TABLE WHICH WAS
WRITTEN BY DMITRI

4. EARLY YEARS
As a kid Dmitri went through a lot,
His family faced one crisis after
another. When Dmitri was little, his
father went blind and his mother
went to work. She became the
manager of a successful glass
factory. Tragedy struck again in 1848,
when the factory burned down, and
the family faced poverty.
Mendeleev’s mother was set on to
get him an education, she even
traveled with him to different places
so that her son can become
successful. Sadly, after10days his
mother passed away due to
tuberculosis, a disease that had also
taken his father.

5. TEACHING
AND
SCHOOLING
• Mendeleev graduated in 1855 from St.
Petersburg university. which was located
in Russia. He got his first teaching
position at Simferopol in Crimea. He
stayed there only two months and, after
a short time he decided to go back to
St. Petersburg to continue his education.
He received a master’s degree in 1856
and then later went to study abroad, In
1861 Mendeleev returned to St.
Petersburg, where he obtained a
professorship at the Technological
Institute in 1864. After the defense of his
doctoral dissertation in 1865 he was
appointed professor of chemical
technology at the University of St.
Petersburg, he continued there until
1890.

6. SUCCESS
Awards Dmitri won:
Davy Medal Copley Medal Demidov Prize

7. ACHIEVEMENTS

8. THREE MOST FAMOUS BOOKS WRITTEN
BY DMITRI
An Attempt Towards a
Chemical Conception of the
Ether
The Principles of Chemistry,
Part 1
Mendeleev on the
Periodic Law:

9. MORE ABOUT DMITRI
MENDELEEV
• He was known for his long beard and
long hair.
• Other than chemistry, Dmitri was also
interested in art and economics.
• Mendeleev's name is on a list of
famous people who worked at the
Simferopol School, Crimea.
• In order to earn money, he started
writing articles on popular science and
technology for journals.
• He wrote projects to develop a coal
industry in the Donets Basin, and he
traveled to both Baku in Azerbaijan
and to Pennsylvania in the United
States in order to learn more about the
petroleum industry.
• He is called the father of periodic table. Statue of Dmitri Mendeleev in St.
Petersburg

10. TIMELINE
Born in Tobolsk,
Russia on 7 February
1834 1847
Father died due
to tuberculosis
1849
Travels with mother
and sister to St.
Peterburg
1850
Enrolls in St. Peterburg,
mother dies of
tuberculosis
1855
Graduates as a
science
teacher
Returns to St.
Peterburg to
study
Royal society of England
awards him the Copley
medal
Gets married to
Anna Ivanova
Popova
Visits USA
Invents the
periodic table
Becomes a
professor and
publishes a book
1856
1882
Dies in St.
Peterburg on 2
February
1869 1876 1905 19071866-1868

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