Dmitri Mendeleev is one of the greatest chemists of all time. Among his accomplishments, Mendeleev created the Periodic Table of Elements and wrote many chemistry textbooks. Some of those textbooks are still studied today. Without Mendeleev, the field of chemistry would not be the same. Additionally, without Mendeleev, chemists might not have discovered the periodic table till much later. The works and discoveries of Dmitri Mendeleev have changed the world.
Mendeleev starting impacting others in his early life. Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was born on February 8, 1834 in Tobolsk, Russia. He was the youngest of his fourteen surviving siblings. His father, who became blind in 1834, died in 1847. After his father's death, Dmitri's mother operated a family-owned glass factory. The factory, which began to thrive under Mendeleev's mother, served as a substantial source of income until it burned down in 1848.
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Mendeleev, who was teaching a class on inorganic chemistry, could not find any textbooks that adequately covered the areas that he wanted to teach. Therefore, Mendeleev began writing his own textbook on inorganic chemistry. Mendeleev, who had already written a successful textbook in 1861, completed his new textbook, Osnovy khimii, in 1868 (Encyclopedia Britannica). From that time forward, it would undergo many revisions. While Mendeleev was writing the chapter on halogen elements, he decided to compare them to the alkali earth metals. When he did so, Mendeleev found similarities in each group's atomic weight progression. After studying and comparing other element groups, Mendeleev discovered the periodic law. The periodic law is “ the statement that the chemical and physical properties of the elements recur periodically when the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights” (Dictionary). In 1869, Mendeleev presented his new law to the Russian Chemical