CHEMISTRY

Atoms & Molecules

Atoms & Molecules

Introduction

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was born on 8th February in the year of 1834 in Tobolsk. He was the son of the headmaster. Dmitri was the youngest son in the family, composed of fourteen children. After graduating from high school in Tobolsk, Mendel was admitted to the St. Petersburg Main Pedagogical Institute, Department of Natural Sciences Physics and Mathematics. Studies at the Mendeleev Institute, completed with a gold medal.

Six months later, Mendeleev returned to St. Petersburg again. In 1856 he defended his master's thesis and began to read the course of organic chemistry at St. Petersburg ...