A Genius Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

DMITRI IVANOVICH MENDELEEV

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was born in Tobolsk (Siberia), on 8 February 1934. After his early education, he joined university due to effort of his aged mother. He received a master degree in chemistry in 1856 and doctoral degree in 1865. He was appointed professor of general chemistry in 1867, at university of St. Petersburg. In 1869 he proposed a famous “periodic law” and constructed a periodic table of elements. In this table, he placed certain elements at specific places in accordance with their properties. He also predicted properties of some undiscovered elements.

Mendeleev was a versatile genius. He was interested in many areas of science. He worked a lot on natural resources too. In 1890, he resigned his professorship, and appointed the director of the bureau of weight and measures. Mendeleev dedicated all his work to his mother. To name the element with atomic number 101 mendelevium was proposed to honour Mendeleev by American scientist Glenn T Seaborg, the discoverer of the element. Mendeleev died in February 1907.

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