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Dmitri Mendeleev's Life And Accomplishments

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Dmitri Mendeleev was born in Tobolsk Siberia in 1834. Dmitri died in 1907. One morning he was eating porridge in his kitchen and he spilled it on his fresh new shoes. Not wanting to swear he yelled out a science word and thought it sounded cool. Thought he was super mad about his fresh new shoes getting dirty he decided to look into the word. He became very interested and studied it. Dmitri Mendeleev studied the word at St. Pittsburg and graduated in 1856. Dmitri found the rest of the periodic table. There were only 60 elements on the periodic table when Mendeleev started his work. When Dmitri Mendeleev started there were a lot of mistakes so he had a lot of work to do before he was done. Dmitri did an equation to find where the individual elements were placed on the periodic table. Mendeleev said that the atomic weight is the equivalent weight times the valency. Dmitri had used his now calculated atomic weight which is now called the atomic mass to place each element. Dmitri Mendeleev was never awarded a nobel prize for his accomplishments but the one hundred and first element was named after him. Mendelevium was the one hundred and first element and was named after Dmitri Mendeleev for his accomplishments. …show more content…

Mendelevium has and atomic number of 101. Mendelevium has a melting point of 1521of or 827oc. Mendelevium is a radioactive metal which only a few atoms have been created. Mendelevium is only being used for research. Mendelevium is not a naturally occurring element which means it is made in a lab. Mendelevium is made by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles which are identical to a helium ion. In 1955 Albert Ghiorso, Bernard Harvey, Gregory Choplin, Stanley Thompson, and Glenn Seaborg made seventeen atoms of Mendelevium. Today it is possible to produce millions of Mendelevium atoms. The longest living isotope is Mendelevium-260 which has a half life of 28

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