Biography of Famous Chemists Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev: Father of the Periodic Table Early Life:Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was born on January 27, 1834, in Tobolsk, Siberia, Russia. He was the youngest of 14 children in a well-educated and moderately prosperous family. His father, Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev, was a teacher, and his mother, Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleeva (née Kornilieva), came from a merchant family. Tragically, Dmitri’s father […]