Dmitri Mendeleev was born on 27 January 1834 in Tobolsk. A Russian chemist, Mendeleev was born in Siberia, studied in Saint Petersburg and became a professor there. In 1869, while writing a chemistry textbook, he arranged the known chemical elements by atomic weight and found that their properties repeated at regular intervals, which he presented as the periodic table. He left gaps for elements that had not yet been discovered and predicted their properties, and the later discovery of gallium, scandium and germanium confirmed his predictions. He also studied gases, solutions and the Russian petroleum industry, and worked on standards of weights and measures. Element 101, mendelevium, is named after him.
Before and after
- 31 October 1833Birth of Alexander Borodin
- from 1834 to 1919Founding of Zollverein
- 1834Electric motor
- 1834Construction of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- 27 January 1834Birth of Dmitri Mendeleev
- 16 February 1834Birth of Ernst Haeckel
- 19 July 1834Birth of Edgar Degas
- 1835Publication of Kalevala
- 1835Coriolis force
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