Periodic Table of the Elements
- History
of the Periodic Table
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev created the first version of the Periodic Table of Elements.
Mendeleev was born in Tobolsk, Siberia in 1834.
Mendeleev attended the Gymnasium in Tobolsk and the Main Pedagogical Institute in St. Petersburg .In 1863 he became Professor of Chemistry at the Technological Institute and the University of St. Petersburg.
He patented the standard for the classical Russian vodka, investigated the composition and fields of oil and helped to found the first oil refinery in Russia. He died in St. Petersburg, from influenza in 1907. Element number 101, the radioactive mendelevium, is named after him.
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