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Birth
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev was born on February 8, 1834 in Tobolsk in the family of Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev, director of the Tobolsk gymnasium and schools of the Tobolsk district, and Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleev (Kornilyeva)
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Scientist's family
Dmitry Mendeleev was the seventeenth child in the family. At that time, a large family was atypical for the Russian intelligentsia. However, by the time of the birth of the future great scientist in the Mendeleev family, two boys and five girls were still alive, eight children had died in infancy, and three of them did not even have time to give a name to their parents.
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Dissertation "The structure of silica compounds"
He defended his dissertation "on the right to lecture" - "The structure of silica compounds", and he was awarded the degree of Master of Chemistry -
Dissertation “On the Compound of Alcohol with Water”
At a meeting of the Council of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Imperial St. Petersburg University, Mendeleev defended his doctoral dissertation “On the Compound of Alcohol with Water”, which laid the foundations of his teaching on solutions -
Periodic law
Scientists discovered and formulated one of the fundamental laws of nature - the periodic law of chemical elements. It should be noted that Mendeleev worked on his system from 1869 to 1900 and was never satisfied with his work until the end. -
Recognized Suitcase Master
Mendeleev loved binding books, gluing frames for portraits, and making suitcases. In St. Petersburg and Moscow he was known as the best master of suitcase cases in Russia. His products were solid and of high quality. The scientist studied all the glue recipes known at that time and came up with his own special glue mixture. Mendeleev kept the method of its preparation a secret. -
Family and Children
At the end of 1876, 42-year-old Dmitry Mendeleev met and passionately falls in love with 16-year-old Anna Ivanovna Popova, the daughter of a Don Cossack from Uryupinsk. In the second marriage, D.I. Mendeleev had four children: Love, Ivan and the twins Maria and Vasily. -
Smokeless gunpowder
The scientist discovered smokeless gunpowder for Russia on behalf of the authorities. Armed with open reports, he found out how many and what powder ingredients the producing countries imported for the last ten years. This allowed him to calculate the proportions and after a series of experiments to achieve success. -
Three times Nobel Prize candidat
Dmitry Mendeleev was nominated for the Nobel Prize, awarded since 1901, three times - in 1905, 1906 and 1907. However, only foreigners nominated him. Members of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, by secret ballot, repeatedly rejected his candidacy. Mendeleev was a member of many foreign academies and academic societies, but never became a member of his native Russian Academy. -
Last years and death
In the last years of his life, Mendeleev did a lot to open the first university in Siberia, founded the Main Chamber of Weights and Measures, facilitated the opening of the Polytechnic Institute in Kiev, and created the first Chemical Society in the Russian Empire. A scientist died at the age of 72. He was buried in one of the cemeteries of St. Petersburg.
