Dmitri Mendeleev - Anita

• Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeleev was born on February 8, 1834, in the isolated and tundra-like regions of Tobolsk, Siberia. His mother, Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleev, accompanied by his father, Ivanovitch Pavlovich, had seventeen children as a couple, Dmitri being the youngest of the family. In the unfortunate year of 1847, Dmitri's father was struck blind, therefore not having the abilities his once had to perform his occupation and feed/provide for his family of eighteen. Therefore, as he was hospitalized, Dmitri's mother was pushed into the glass industry when she purposefully opened a private factory to support the family, which also unfortunately burned down the same year that Dmitri's father had passed from other medical conditions.
• Dmitri's mother always desired the best provided for her son throughout his hectic childhood, and when the time came to enroll him into a successful college, mother and son walked nearly a thousand miles just to reach a decent university in Moscow, Russia. Dmitri's mother even stayed positive when they refused to admit her child, and sent them backwards on their thousand-mile journey. She wanted her son to have top-class education, and he was luckily accepted into St. Petersburg Institute Of Pedagogy, or the profession of teaching, on a full scholarship. His mother unfortunately died the same year, and Dmitri Mendeleev was orphaned at the age of sixteen. He graduated with a dejgree in math and science, but returned for masters.
• As Dimitri's adulthood arrived, he eventually married Feozva Nikitchna Lascheva, with whom he had two children: a son named Volodya and a daughter named Olga, after Dimitri's beloved sister. Dmitri later remarried a woman named Anna Ivanova Popova. From his total of two marriages, he had a total of six children. As a professor of chemistry at St. Petersburg Technological Institute, he was in need of a quality textbook with which he could base his curriculum and teachings to students off of. Therefore, he created his own copy through a great amount of research and experimentation, called The Principles Of Chemistry. While he was conducting experimentation and research on his book, Dmitri made his greatest achievement.
• While he was researching and writing his book in the 1860s, Dmitri's experimentation is what deemed him the father of the periodic table. Using his previously known knowledge and combining that with the new laws of chemistry he had discovered, he categorized elements depending on their physical and chemical properties, along with organizing the families into periods depending upon the atomic weight of the element. This odd grid-like chart that Dmitri organized was deemed the periodic table of elements. This complex table was organized by one man in the short time of five years. Not only had he categorized them on the characteristics listed above, but also had them organized depending upon other complex attributes/properties.
• Before his death, Dmitri assisted the Russian government on determining petroleum production, coal industry, advanced agricultural methods, new types of gunpowder, and even government matters such as the national tariffs. He received honorary rewards such as from Oxford and Cambridge and the Royal Society Of London. Dmitir finally died on February 2, 1907, and his funeral was held in St. Petersburg, where his loyal students held the periodic table as a tribute to his life's worth and dedication of scientific work of formulating the periodic table. The periodic table is still used today, ranging from a variety of male to female, and child to adult. Any occupation can utilize the table. Dmitri Mendeleev has bonded the world forever.