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Authorised form of nameMendeleeff; Dmitri Ivanovich (1834 - 1907)
Other forms of nameDmitry Ivanovich
Other forms of surnameMendeleev
Dates1834 - 1907
Place of birthTobolsk [Tyumen Oblast, Siberia]
Date of birth08 February 1834
Place of deathSt Petersburg, Russia
Date of death02/02/1907
Research fieldChemistry
ActivityEducation:
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
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election19/05/1892
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Davy Medal 1882; Copley Medal 1905
RelationshipsYoungest of 17 children
SourceSources:
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 Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/71528062
CodeNA4343
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/003062Mendeleef, Dmitri Ivanovich1995
IM/003061Mendeleef, Dmitri Ivanovich1995
NLB/6/708Copy letter from Theodore E James, to [Harrisons]30 June 1892
NLB/11/841Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]16 October 1895
NLB/11/659Copy letter from A H White, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society4 September 1895
NLB/31/712Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleeff, Foreign Member, Royal Society3 November 1905
NLB/31/872Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleeff, Charring Cross Hotel28 November 1905
NLB/34/533Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]4 February 1907
EC/1892/05Mendeleeff, Dmitri Ivanovich: certificate of election to the Royal Society19 May 1892
NLB/11/848Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs West Newman & Company18 October 1895
MC/19/609Letter from Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleeff, St Petersburg, to Sir William Huggins, President of the Royal Society1904
NLB/17/386Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleeff, Foreign Member, Royal Society, 19 Zabalkansky, St Petersburg20 October 1898
MC/15/298Letter from [Edward] Frankland, Norway, to the Secretary of the Royal Society14 July 1892
MC/15Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1889-1892
MC/20/172Copy of a letter from [Dmitri Ivanovich] Mendeleeff, St Petersburg, to Sir James Dewar, Royal Institution, London[19 November 1905]
MC/20/173Letter from [Dmitri Ivanovich] Mendeleeff, Charing Cross Hotel, to the President of the Royal Society26 November 1905
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
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