Mendeleev was credited as being the creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements.
in the 1860s, Mendeleev was unaware of the other work on periodic tables going on in the 1860s.
in 1869, Mendeleev was one of the founders of the Russian Chemical Society.
Mendeleev proposed to Anna IvanovaPopova and threatened to kill himself if she refused.
Mendeleev became obsessed with Anna IvanovaPopova and began courting her in 1876.
Mendeleev was married twice, He got engaged on April 4,1862 then he got married on April 27,1862 and then he divorced his wife because he was seeing another woman.
In 1863, Mendeleev became Professor of Chemistry at the Saint Petersburg Technological Institute and Saint-Petersburg state university
Between 1859 and 1861, Mendeleev worked on the capillarity of liquids and the workings of the spectroscope in Heidelberg.
In 1861 Mendeleev wrote his first book on spectroscope.
At 13 years old Mendeleev's father passed away and his mothers factory burnt down.