| Authorised form of name | Mendeleeff; Dmitri Ivanovich (1834 - 1907) |
| Other forms of name | Dmitry Ivanovich |
| Other forms of surname | Mendeleev |
| Dates | 1834 - 1907 |
| Place of birth | Tobolsk [Tyumen Oblast, Siberia] |
| Date of birth | 08 February 1834 |
| Place of death | St Petersburg, Russia |
| Date of death | 02/02/1907 |
| Research field | Chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
St Petersburg (graduated 1856)
Career:
Settled in Heidelberg and set up his own laboratory (1860); returned to St Petersburg (1861); Professor of Chemistry, Technical Institute, St Petersburg (1863); Professor of Chemistry, University of St Petersburg (1866-1890); Director, Bureau of Weights and Measures, St Petersburg (1893); apparently saw the periodic table in a dream; predicted the existence of gallium, scndium and germanium
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| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 19/05/1892 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Davy Medal 1882; Copley Medal 1905 |
| Relationships | Youngest of 17 children |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1910-1911 vol 84 pp xvii-xx signed by W A T |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/71528062 |
| Code | NA4343 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/003062 | Mendeleef, Dmitri Ivanovich | 1995 |
| IM/003061 | Mendeleef, Dmitri Ivanovich | 1995 |
| NLB/6/708 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to [Harrisons] | 30 June 1892 |
| NLB/11/841 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt] | 16 October 1895 |
| NLB/11/659 | Copy letter from A H White, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society | 4 September 1895 |
| NLB/31/712 | Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleeff, Foreign Member, Royal Society | 3 November 1905 |
| NLB/31/872 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleeff, Charring Cross Hotel | 28 November 1905 |
| NLB/34/533 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons] | 4 February 1907 |
| EC/1892/05 | Mendeleeff, Dmitri Ivanovich: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 19 May 1892 |
| NLB/11/848 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs West Newman & Company | 18 October 1895 |
| NLB/17/386 | Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleeff, Foreign Member, Royal Society, 19 Zabalkansky, St Petersburg | 20 October 1898 |
| MC/15/298 | Letter from [Edward] Frankland, Norway, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 14 July 1892 |
| MC/15 | Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1889-1892 |
| MC/19/609 | Letter from Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleeff, St Petersburg, to Sir William Huggins, President of the Royal Society | 1904 |
| MC/23/463 | Letter from William [Augustus] Tilden, The Oaks, Northwood, [Middlesex], to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 25 October 1908 |
| MC/20/172 | Copy of a letter from [Dmitri Ivanovich] Mendeleeff, St Petersburg, to Sir James Dewar, Royal Institution, London | [19 November 1905] |
| MC/20/173 | Letter from [Dmitri Ivanovich] Mendeleeff, Charing Cross Hotel, to the President of the Royal Society | 26 November 1905 |
| MC/19 | Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1904 |
| MC/23/460 | Letter from [Thomas Edward]Thorpe, Government Laboratory, London, WC, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 27 July 1908 |