DMITRI MENDELEEV

By Molly

A LITTLE ABOUT DMITRI

Dmitri was a Russian chemist and an inventor. ! He was born in 1834. Mendeleev died in 1907 because he had inuenza.

PERIODIC TABLE

Mendeleev is famous because he created the rst version of the periodic table of elements.! The table is organized in order by their atomic number. ! Dmitri left spaces in the table where unknown elements would go.! It has been redone many different times.

WHAT HE THOUGHT ABOUT SCIENCE

Mendeleev taught lots of people about science in many different places.! He wanted everybody to like science and understand it.

SOME OF HIS QUOTES

"There is nothing in this world that I fear to say."! "Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will nd it nowhere else."! "No one nor anything can silence me."

MARIE CURIE

WHO IS MARIE CURIE?

Marie Curie was a French physicist. ! She died from exposure to radium.! During World War One they did not have enough X-Rays, so she came up with the idea of putting them in trucks to deliver to different places.

WHAT SHE DID FOR SCIENCE

Marie discovered polonium and radium. (Polonium and radium are chemical elements). ! Marie came up with the name radioactivity.! She also studied uranium with her husband.

SOME OF HER QUOTES

"Be less curious about people and more about ideas."! "I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."! "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

SOURCES

www.wikepidea.com! www.ducksters.com! Google images! Books