Scientist dmitri mendeleev biography for kids

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (February 7, 1834-January 20, 1907) was a Russianchemist who became known as one of two scientists who created the first version of the Periodic Table of Elements.

Mendeleev stated that the elements were arranged in a very unique pattern which allows him to predict the elements before they are discovered.

He was born in Tobolsk[?], Siberia, the youngest of fourteen children of Maria Dmitrievna Korniliev and Ivan Pavlovitch Mendeleev.

At the age of 14, after the death of his father, Mendeleev was attending the Gymnasium in Tobolsk.

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In 1849, the now poor family Mendeleev relocated to St. Petersburg, where he entered university in 1850. After graduating, a sickness that was diagnosed as tuberculosis made him move to the Crimean Peninsula near the Black Sea in 1855 as chief science master of the local gymnasium, but he returned with fully restored health to St.

Petersburg in 1856.

Between 1859 and 1861 he worked on the density of gase