Biography of Dmitri Mendeleev

(1834/02/08 - 02/02/1907)

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Dmitri Mendeleev

Russian chemist

He was born on February 8, 1834 in Tobolsk (Siberia).
He studied chemistry at the University of St. Petersburg and in 1859 at the University of Heidelberg, where he met the Italian chemist Stanislao Cannizzaro. He returned to Petersburgo and worked as Professor of chemistry at the Technical Institute in 1863 and Professor of general chemistry at the University of St. Petersburg in 1866.
He wrote two volumes of principles of chemistry (1868-1870). He attempted to classify the elements according to their chemical properties. In 1869 he published the first version of the periodic table. In 1871 he published a corrected version. He also did research in the study of chemical theory of the dissolution, the thermal expansion of liquids and the nature of the oil.
In 1887 began a solo balloon trip to conduct a study on a solar eclipse.
In 1893 he was appointed director of the Department of weights and measures in St. Petersburg.
Dmitri Mendeléiev died on February 2, 1907 in St. Petersburg.