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A Well-ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev And The Shadow Of The Periodic Table
Dmitrii Mendeleev: It's a name we recognize, but only as the disheveled scientist pictured in our high school chemistry textbook, the creator of the periodic table of elements Until now little has been known about the man, but A Well-Ordered Thing draws a portrait of this chemist in three full dimensions.Historian Michael Gordin also details Mendeleev's complex relationship with the Russian Empire that was his home. From his attack on Spiritualism to his humiliation at the hands of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences, from his near-mythical hot-air balloon trip to his failed voyage to the Arctic, this is the story of an extraordinary man deeply invested in the good of his country. And the ideals that shaped his work in politics and culture were the same ones that led a young chemistry professor to start putting elements in order.Mendeleev was a loyal subject of the Tsar, but he was also a maverick who thought that only an outsider could perfect a modern Russia. A Well-Ordered Thing is a fascinating glimpse into the world of Imperial Russia--and into the life of one of its most notorious minds.
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Mendeleyev's Dream : The Quest For the Elements
In this elegant, erudite, but entertaining book, Paul Strathern, the award-winning novelist and expositor of complex ideas, unravels the dramatic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements.

Framing this history is the life story of the nineteenth-century Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who fell asleep at his desk and awoke after conceiving the periodic table in a dream-the template upon which modern chemistry is founded and the formulation of which marked chemistry's coming of age as a science. From ancient philosophy through medieval alchemy to the splitting of the atom, this is the true story of the birth of chemistry and the role of one man's dream.
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Dmitri Mendeleyev and the Periodic Table (Uncharted, Unexplored, and Unexplained)
Born in an isolated Siberian village in 1834, Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeleyev overcame great odds to become the most brilliant and acclaimed scientist in the field of chemistry in the 19th century. His mother's determination overcame the objections of those who believed he was a poor student. She took him the long hard way across Siberia to Moscow and later St. Petersburg where finally Mendeleyev was admitted to a teachers college. Despite his mother's death and his own serious illness, he was awarded the gold medal for best student of the year in 1855. As a young chemistry teacher, he was sent to study in Europe in order the bring the latest developments in the science back to Russia. He succeeded so well that his chemistry textbooks became standard texts all over the world, and his Periodic Table of the Elements forms the foundation for all the advances in chemistry from his time until the present..
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