D. I. Mendeleev: Reflecting on his death in 1907

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 46, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 2758-2765

  Gordin, M D ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

History of science; Mendeleev, Dmitrii Ivanovich; Periodic table; Periodicity

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

PERIODIC LAW; PERIODIC TABLES; PERIODICITY;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 34250813658     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200601976     Document Type: Review

References (26)

1. For a fuller analysis of Mendeleev's biography, with further documentation on the topics addressed here, see: M. D. Gordin, A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table, Basic Books, New York, 2004.
2. D. I. Mendeleev, "Biograficheskie zametki o D. I. Mendeleeve (pisany vse mnoiu - D. I. Mendeleevym)," reproduced in S. A. Shchukarev and S. N. Valk, Arkhiv D. I. Mendeleeva, t. 1: Avtobiograficheskie Materialy, Sbornik Dokumentov, Izd. Leningradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta im. A. A. Zhdanova, Leningrad, 1951, 13-30.
3. Reproduced in S. A. Shchukarev and S. N. Valk, Arkhiv D. I. Mendeleeva, t. 1: Avtobiograficheskie Materialy, Sbornik Dokumentov, Izd. Leningradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta im. A. A. Zhdanova, Leningrad, 1951, 31-33.
4. Reproduced in S. A. Shchukarev and S. N. Valk, Arkhiv D. I. Mendeleeva, t. 1: Avtobiograficheskie Materialy, Sbornik Dokumentov, Izd. Leningradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta im. A. A. Zhdanova, Leningrad, 1951, 34-36.
5. For details, see: M. D. Gordin, A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table, Basic Books, New York, 2004, chap. 2.
6. See also: I. S. Dmitriev, Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki. 2001, no. 1, 31-82.
7. D. Mendelejew, Ann. Chim. Phys. Ser. VIII 1872, 133-229.
8. For the priority disputes, see: J. W. van Spronsen, The Periodic System of Chemical Elements: A History of the First Hundred Years, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1969.
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12. D. Mendeleev, J. Chem. Soc. 1889, 55, 634-656 (ellipses added).
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14. M. D. Gordin, Technology and Culture 2003, 44, 677-702.
15. M. D. Gordin, Kritika 2003, 4, 783-815.
16. Mendeleev to Ramsay, February 12, 1895, as quoted in: M. D. Gordin, A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table, Basic Books, New York, 2004, p. 210.
17. J. E. Gilpin, Am. Chem. J. 1898, 20, 696-699.
18. Quoted in: N. Morozov, D. I. Mendeleev i znachenie ego periodicheskoi sistemy dlia khimii budushchago, I. D. Sytin, Moscow, 1908, p. 89.
19. D. I. Mendeleev, Vestnik i Biblioteka Samoobrazovaniia, 1903, nos. 1-4, 25-32, 83-92, 113-122, 161-176 (emphasis in original).
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21. D. I. Mendeleev, Vestnik i Biblioteka Samoobrazovaniia, 1903, nos. 1-4, 163n,
22. and fragment quoted in: M. D. Gordin, A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table, Basic Books, New York, 2004, p. 224.
23. "Sootnoshenie svoistv s atomnym vesom elementov": D. I. Mendelejew, Zhurnal Russkogo khimicheskogo obshchestva 1869, 1(2-3), 60-77,
24. as reprinted with Mendeleev's collected papers on periodicity in D. I. Mendeleev, Periodischeskii zakon. Klassiki nauki (Ed.: B. M. Kedrov), Izd. AN SSSR, Moscow, 1958, p. 9.
25. R. B. Dobrotin, N. G. Karpilo, L. S. Kerova, D. N. Trifonov, Letopis' zhizni i deiatel'nosti D. I. Mendeleeva (Ed.: A. V. Storonkin), Nauka, Leningrad, 1984, p. 477.
26. D. Mendeléef, An Attempt towards a Chemical Conception of the Ether (translated by G. Kamensky), Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1904, p. 26.