| name | Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev |
| date of birth | 8 February 1834 |
| place of birth | Tobolsk |
| early years | Youngest of approximately seventeen children. Father worked as a teacher, mother supported family by re-establishing a glass factory. Grandfather was a priest. Entered Gymnasium at 13. |
| later years | Moved to Saint Petersburg, joined Pedagogical Institute. Worked in Crimean Peninsula as science master. Researched capillarity of liquids in Heidelberg. Professor at Saint Petersburg Technological Institute and State University. Center for chemistry research in Saint Petersburg. Died of influenza. |
| famous for | Periodic table of elements. Discovery of the periodic system. |
| date of death | 1907 |