Mendeleev Was Born In Tobolsk, Siberia. He Was The Youngest Child Of A Large Fam

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Term Paper Title	Mendeleev Was Born In Tobolsk, Siberia. He Was The Youngest Child Of A Large Fam
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Mendeleev was born in Tobolsk, Siberia. He was the youngest child of a large family . his father was a local school teacher whose career was ended by blindness and o support his family his mother ran a glass factory. Mendeleev learned some science from a political refugee who married one of his sisters. His father died in 1847, and soon after his mothers factory was destroyed by fire. She left Tobolsk with Mendeleev, she was determined that her last son should receive a good education. He studied chemistry at the University of Saint Petersburg, and in 1859 he was sent to study at the University of Heidelberg. There he met the Italian chemist Stanislao Cannizzaro, whose views on atomic weight influenced his thinking. Mendeleev returned to Saint Petersburg and became professor of chemistry at the Technical Institute in 1863. He became professor of general chemistry at the University of Saint Petersburg in 1866. Mendeleev was a renowned teacher, and, because no good textbook in chemistry was available, he wrote the two-volume Principles of Chemistry. He wrote them in-between 1868-1870. They became a classic. Mendeleev became best known for his development of the periodic law of the properties.
In Saint Petersburg, Mendeleev investigated the periodic law, the composition of solutions, and the nature and origin of petroleum. H...

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