Dmitri mendeleev complete biography wikipedia

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (born 8 February (O.S. 27 January) 1834 near Tobolsk – 2 February (O.S. 20 January 20) 1907 in Saint Petersburg) was a Russianchemist who created the periodic table of elements. Many of the predictions made in his periodic table (such as the properties of elements undiscovered at the time) were later proved correct by experiments.

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Chemical element 101 was named Mendelevium in his honor.

Life

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Mendeleev was born in the village of Verkhnie Aremzyani, near Tobolsk in Siberia,to Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev and Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleeva (née Kornilieva). His grandfather was Pavel Maximovich Sokolov, a priest of Russian Orthodox Church from the Tver region.^[1] Ivan, with his brothers and sisters, got new family names while attending theological seminary.^[2] Later in life, he invented the periodic table of elements in the year 1861,

Mendeleev is thought to be the youngest of 14 siblings, but