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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was born in Tobolsk, Russia and had about 16 siblings
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His father went blind and his mother opened a glass factory. Later that year, his father died.
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Dmitri Mendeleev moves to Russia's capital city.
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Mendeleev got a place at his father's college since they knew his father. He trained to be a teacher there.
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At age 20, he started to show his promise and started to publish research papers.
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At age 21, Mendeleev got a teaching job in Simferopol, Crimea
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After graduating form Heidelburg and Saint Petersburg and then taught in the Russian cities for a while. He then earned a masters degree in chemistry at Saint Petersburg and then did 2 years at the University of Heidelburg,
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In 1856, Mendeleev was awarded his degree.
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John Newlands made his law of octaves concept.
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Julius Lothar Meyer developed a few other periodic tables between 1864 and 1870
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Just 5 years after John Newlands put forth is law of octaves, Mendeleev published his periodic table of elements. Mendeleev also arranged the elements known at that time in order of relative atomic mass.
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William Ramsay discovered some gases though they contradicted Mendeleev's work.
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On February 2nd, 1907, Dmitri Mendeleev got the flu and died in Saint Petersburg, Russia. His students carried a large copy of the periodic table of elements to recognize his work on it.
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In 1962, a 3 dimensional table was invented.
