Chemistry would be studied very differently at this time if it were not for the intelligent mind and great efforts of the remarkable Dimitri Mendeleev. This incredible man singlehandedly developed a way to organize the many elements of God’s creation on what is known as the Periodic Table. Although many struggles, both physical and emotional, haunted his life, Mendeleev never ceased searching for the truths of science, and made many scientific discoveries.
Born in the village Verkhnie Aremzyani, near Tobolsk, Siberia, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev is believed to be the youngest of his many brothers and sisters. His father, Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev, and mother, Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleeva, raised their children in the Russian Orthodox Church. It is unknown for certain how many siblings that young Mendeleev had, but ranges between eleven and seventeen. For his childhood education, he attended the local gymnasium. Mendeleev’s father earned the family’s money by teaching politics, philosophy and fine arts, but lost his job due to blindness. Because his father could no longer work, Mendeleev’s mother restarted the old, family business of glass-making. When Mendeleev was only thirteen, his father perished, but his mother remained strong. She taught her son to always seek the truth, which inspired Mendeleev’s interest in science (Wikipedia).
When Mendeleev was a young adult, he and his mother traveled to Moscow so that he could receive a better education, only to be rejected by the University. They then journeyed to St. Petersburg, where Mendeleev was accepted by the University, and where the whole Mendeleev family was relocated. Mendeleev studied chemistry at the St. Petersburg University and graduated successfully (Gordin 1...
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As Mendeleev grew old, he continued to make other scientific achievements. He retired from his teaching job at the university, and investigated several problems involving chemistry and helped to solve them. He became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and became favored by the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. He had gained a great reputation and always held on to his love for science.
Mendeleev perished in 1907 at the age of seventy-two, due to the sickness, influenza. He died in St. Petersburg, his home. Dedicated to him are many monuments and memorials. A crater on the moon even bears his name in his remembrance, and the element, Mendelevium, was given its name to honor him (Wikipedia). A magnificent chemist and composer of the periodic table, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev will always be honored for his great works.
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The best-selling novel, The Disappearing Spoon, is written by Sam Kean. The book revolves around the periodic table. It goes into such depth of the table, it is literally an adventure historically, politically, and scientifically. Not to mention, it is relevant to what has been learned this school year, which is what I’ll be talking about in this paper. The book is extremely helpful in learning the periodic table of elements, which is an imperative tool to have when studying physical science or chemistry, for example. It fills an unknown void of what the table is, solving mysteries as the chapter progresses.
Although some of the elements have been known for thousands of years, our understanding of many elements is still young. Mendeleev’s first Periodic Table contained only 63 elements, and about that many were discovered in the following 100 years. Just like countries, emperors, philosophers, and cities, elements have histories, too.“The Disappearing spoon” by Sam Kean, is a detailed history of the elements on the Periodic Table. Kean does a important job of telling every single element’s journey throughout the history of mankind: from the earliest times, when chemistry was intermingled with alchemy, to these days of modern chemistry. For example: Thallium is considered the deadliest element, pretending to be potassium to gain entry into our cells where it then breaks amino acid bonds within proteins. The CIA once developed a plan to poison Fidel Castro by dosing his socks with thallium-tainted
Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833. By the age of 17 he was fluent in Swedish, Russian, French, English and German. Early in his life he had a huge interest in English literature and poetry as well as in chemistry and physics. Alfred's father disliked his interest in poetry and found his son rather introverted. In order to widen Alfred's horizons his father sent him to different institutions for further training in chemical engineering. During a two-year period he visited Sweden, Germany, France and the United States. He came to enjoy Paris the best. There he worked in the private laboratory of Professor T. J. Pelouze, a famous chemist. He also met the young Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero who, three years earlier, had invented nitroglycerine.
-This book was about Velikovsky's claims that incidences in numerous independent cultures around the world were not due to terrestrial origin (i.e. comets and planets caused massive disasters)
Felix Mendelssohn was brought up in a wealthy family, with a strong Jewish faith, and was one of four children. He was born in 1809, in Hamburg, Germany, and died in Leipzig, Germany in 1847. Soon after he and his sister Fanny were born, the family moved to Berlin, to elude the French troops of Napoleon. While in Berlin, the Mendelssohn family experienced some wealth; because of this Felix was able to encounter many artists, musicians, philosophers, and writes. By the young age of thirteen, Mendelssohn was an adept composer.
Mendelsohn was born March 21, 1887 in Olsztyn, Poland, and died on September 19, 1953. He got his start making sketches, and put himself through the Technical Academy in Munich. Although he was drafted into the army, at the start of World War 1, he did not stop drawing and sketching; by the end of the war his sketches had gained notoriety and he was hired to build and design the Hermann Hat factory in Luckenwalde, Germany. This was the beginning of Mendelsohn’s career. Mendelsohn was an expressionist, who liked to make sturdy rectangular structures that had a round centerpiece or corner. His buildings were mostly made out of concrete, steel and glass like those of most expressionists. Mendelsohn often let the form of his buildings be influenced by their function; they were never designed without their purpose being foremost in his mind. In fact, Mendelsohn was a firm believer that form follows function and not the way around, which is evident in his design for the Einstein tower. The Einsteintrum The Einsteintrum or Einstein tower is designed to house a solar observatory, to either prove or disprove Einstein’s theory of relativity and is built in 11/11/13 Potsdam, Germany. It is the first tower observatory in Europe. Mendelsohn worked with an astronomer called Erwin Finlay Freundlich, who designed it. This is Erich Mendelsohn’s most famous work and was finished in 1921. When it was finished Mendelsohn personally gave Einstein a tour of the tower, eagerly waiting for some word of Einstein’s approval, yet Einstein said nothing to Mendelsohn and later simply described it as “organic’ to the building committee. Erich search for approval steamed from the fact that he had designed the building while being inspired by “the mystique aroun...
Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia on September 25, 1906, Shostakovich was the second of three children born to Dmitri Boleslavovich Shostakovich and Sofiya Vasilievna Kokoulina. His father was of Polish descent but both his parents were Siberian natives. Dmitri was a child prodigy as a pianist and composer. He began taking piano lessons from his mother at the age of nine. He displayed an incredible talent to remember what his mother had played at the previous lesson and would get caught pretending to read the music, playing the music from his last lesson instead of what was placed in front of him.
Dmitri Mendeleev was one of the most famous modern-day scientists of all time who contributed greatly to the world’s fields of science, technology, and politics. He helped modernize the world and set it farther ahead into the future. Mendeleev also made studying chemistry easier, by creating a table with the elements and the atomic weights of them put in order by their properties.
His pursuit of knowledge became even more important when he entered the university of Ingolstadt. He "read with ardour" (35) and soon become "so ardent and eager that the stars often disappeared in the light of the morning whilst I was yet engaged in my laboratory" (35). He was a proud product of the Enlightenment...
This caused financial hardships on Mendel’s family. It was also difficult to say goodbye but they did it for the sake of his future. However, he excelled at his studies and eventually graduated with honors in 1840. Following graduation, he went to the University of Olomouc. Here he studied philosophy and physics. Once again, Mendel proved he was very bright and academically capable of many things. However, during this time Mendel was suffering with depression which took a toll on his emotional state. It affected the way he was learning so he abandoned his studies. This was only for a short period of time. Mendel graduated from the University in 1843. Against his father’s will, Mendel began studying to be a priest. He joined the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno as a monk. He thought taking the name ‘Gregor’ was appropriate since he was entering the religious field. In 1849, he was tired of his work in Brno. He was then sent to fulfill a temporary teaching position. Unfortunately, he failed a required teaching certification exam. Thankfully for the monastery’s expense, he was sent to the University of Vienna so he could continue his studies in the sciences. There he studied mathematics and physics under the famous Christian Doppler. The Doppler effect of wave frequency is named after Christian Doppler. He
Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm in the year 1833. When Nobel was five years old, his father Immanuel Nobel moved their family to St. Petersburg. There he started a mechanical workshop for the construction of land mines. Ever since Nobel was young, he has been around explosives, and this is where it all started (Usselman 439). Immanuel Nobel’s sons were home schooled by great teachers. These teachers taught at the level of university professors. They were taught subjects on humanity, natural science, literature, and philosophy. Nobel and his brothers learned Russian, French, English and German (Frangsmyr). The professors stressed on the learning of physics and chemistry. As suspected, Nobel took a great interest in chemistry. Nobel spent most of his prime in the capital of Russia. Learning five languages allowed Nobel to adapt to the international nature that would soon become so important in his life (Frangsmyr).
Antoine Lavoisier and Dalton are responsible for the discovery of 90 natural elements. Dalton also explained the variations of water vapor in the atmosphere, the base of meteorology.
On April 17, 1955, Albert Einstein died at the age of seventy six, in Princetown, New Jersey, from internal bleeding, triggered by the rupture of an aortic aneurysm. (Albert Einstein) Right before his cremation, Dr. Thomas Stoltz Harvey, a pathologist working at the hospital, curious about what made Einstein just so intelligent, removed his brain from his body without permission, though this was not revealed until twenty years later. (Albert Einstein) Einstein’s ashes were scattered, and so ended the life of one of the world’s brightest human minds.
Then both Meyer and Mendeleyev built periodic tables alone, Meyer more impressed by the periodicity of physical properties, while Mendeleyev was more interested in the chemical properties. Then Mendeleyev had published his periodic table and his law in 1869 and forecasted the properties of the missing elements, and chemists then began to be grateful for it when the discovery of elements was predicted by the table that had taken place. Although, periodic tables have always been related to the way scientists thought about the shape and structure of the atom, and has changed over the years exactly for that reason.