Dmitri Mendeleev: No Law Of Nature

Dmitri Mendeleev

By: _Kandalynn Naidl_

My Chemist: Dmitri Mendeleev

“No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments”,said Dmitri Mendeleev. This quote inspired me, and told me to slow down not to rush, to do things in sections. This made me want to pick Dmitri Mendeleev. As soon as I searched him up, the other chemists were ok, I mean a little interesting, but when I read his biography and many of his famous quotes,v For Ex: “ No one nor anything can silence me,” he popped out to me and reminded me of myself,because if something isn’t right or I don’t like something I will stand up and no one can stop me, I am my own person and have my own voice.

Dmitri died on February 2, 1907 in St.Petersburg. Dimitri’s mother’s name is Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleeva, and his father’s name is Ivan Palovich. Dmitri was the youngest of 14-17 children. Unfortunately when Dmitri was just finishing high school, Dmitri Mendeleev’s father died. Now as a widow, and her glass factory burning down, his mother took him and his sister to their cousin’s house,(By now all of the other kids had grown up and “left the nest”). His mother told the cousin how Dmitri needed to go to school, the cousin disagreed and kicked them out of his house. Three months later Dimitri’s mother died, and soon after his sister came down with tuberculosis. All alone, he left for St.Petersburg

He predicted the existence and properties of new elements and pointed out accepted atomic weights that were in error. This organization exceeded attempts at classification by Beguyer de Chancourtois and Newlands and was published a year before the work of Lothar Meyer.

In my opinion, Dmitri Mendeleev was amazing, without him we would not have our periodic table or almost any sense of these elements of ours. I also think that without him we would not have a solid look at chemistry.

In total conclusion, Dmitri Mendeleev was a man of wonder and patience. He had a brain like no one else and the ability to ponder. Mendeleev was one of the first modern-day scientists, in that he did not depend completely on his own work but rather was in correspondence with scientists around the world in order to receive data that they had collected. He then used their data along with his own data to arrange the elements according to their properties. Dmitri Mendeleev got a Nobel Peace Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the periodic