Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleleyev
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleleyev was born in the town of Tobolsk, Siberia on
February 8,1834. He was the youngest of the 14 children . His father was the
principal of a gymnasium ( a school where there is not only body development but
there is also the development of the mind). His mother was very smart and
self-educated . She used her brothers stuff who went to a university. In 1847
his father became blind of the cataracts on his eyes and was forced to retire.
In order to support this very large family his mother opened a glass factory ,
but pretty soon the factory burned down in 1848 shortly after his father died.
His family had to walk about 1000 miles to Moscow in order to get Dmitry into
the University . He was not accepted . He and his then walked to St. Petersburg
where he did get into the institute of pedagogy. In 1860 his mother died at the
age of 59 , this was four years after he graduated the institute as science and
math teacher. He would work in the Crimea until war . In 1856 he returned to the
St. Petersburg in 1856 and finished his MS degree at the St. Petersburg
University. "In 1869 he received a government grant to go get his Ph.D. in Paris
with the Physicist Renault" . On the way to Paris he stopped in Poland somewhere
near Cracow in order to visit the salt mines. While in the salt mines was the
place where his first ideas start to develop. Why should KCl, NaCl, and NaBr
look and behave alike. In Paris he work was mainly focused on thethermal
expansion of the liquids and a year later he went to the Heidelberg where he
became good friends with Borodin . Also worked with Bunsen ( the father of
photochemistry) . They dislike each other greatly.
When he returned to
St. Petersburg in 1861 after completing his Ph.D. and became a professor at the
Technical Institute at the age of 27. In 1863 he married one of his sister’s
friend largely because of the influence from his sister. He did to really love
each other ,but they had two children and mostly lived apart
Mendeleev’s
mother
This picture shows Mendeleev and his wife attending some science
convention in St.Petersburg
Bibliography
1) Encyclopedia
Britannica on-line at www.eb.com:180
Search query :Mendeleev
2)
www.cis.lead.org/MUCT/Mendeleyev.html