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 DMITRI MENDELEEV  Lived 1834-1907 Dmitri Mendeleev was passionate about chemistry.His deepest wish was to find a better way of organizing the subject.

Mendeleev's wish led to his discovery of the periodic law and his creation of the periodic table -one of the most iconic symbols ever seen in science:almost everyone recognizes it instantly:science has few other creations as well-know as the periodic table.

Using his periodic table,Mendeleev predicted the existence and properties of new chemical element.When these elements were discovered,his place in the history of science was assured. Early Life and Education Dmitri ivanovich Mendeleev was born February 8,1834 in verkhnie Aremzyani,in the Russian province of Siberia.His family was unusually large:he may have had as many as 16 brothers and sister,although the exact the number is uncertain.

His father was a teacher who graduated at saint peters burg's Main petrological institute-a teacher training institution.

When his father went blind,his mother re-opened a glass factory which had originally been started by his father and then closed.his father died when Mendeleev was just 13 and the glass factory burned down when he was 15.

Aged 16,he was moved to saint petersburg,which was then Russia's capital city.He won a place at his father's old college,in part because the head of the college has know his father.There,Mendeleev trained to be a teacher.

Chemistry Mendeleev had trained as both a teacher and an academic chemist.He spent time doing both before he won an award to go to western Europe to pursue chemical research.

He spent most of the year 1859 and 1860 in Heideberg,Germany.where he had the good fortune to work for a short time with Robert Bunsen at Heideberg university.in 1860 Bunsen and his colleague Gustav Kirchhoff discovered the element cesium using chemical spectroscopy-a new method they had developed,which Bunsen introduced Mendeleev.

In 1860,Mendeleev attended the first ever international chemistry conference,which took place in Karisruhe,Germany.much of the conference's time was spent discussing the need to standardize chemistry. WRITTEN BY ABDULRAHMAN MUHAMMAD SKB(NIGERIAN) FOLLOW ME ON Facebook @ mrskebbi muhammad.