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Dmitri Mendeleev was a very success chemist specifically in the area of the atomic theory and the periodic table of elements. Mendeleev was born in 1834 to a family of 14 children. He died in 1907. His father was a gym teacher who was stricken blind when Dmitri was a young age. All his life Dmitri had a certain interest in science. When he finished his education he published a chemistry textbook entitled The Principles of Chemistry. This text book won the Demidov Prize. From there his career as a chemist launched, and later he made the discovery of Periodic Law. Periodic Law is described as a recurring pattern in the properties of the elements when they are in increasing order. Dmitri Mendeleev also completed the the periodic table, discovering the elements Gallium, Scandium, Germanium, discovered a smaller atomic weight than hydrogen, and discovered the absolute point of ebullition (the point where a gas condenses to a liquid to due pressure). His contributions to chemistry are important because it allows other chemists to make further discoveries in chemistry and atoms, and periodic law created an organized way to categorize chemicals and particles, called the periodic table of elements, which can prevent inaccuracies in chemical names, and prevent dangerous mixtures of chemicals. His discoveries won Mendeleev the Nobel Prize. An interesting fact pertaining to Dmitri Mendeleev is that his father was a gym teacher, who was stricken blind the same year Dmitri was born, and died thirteen years later.
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