Dmitri Mendeleev: Great Minds
Hank introduces us to the man behind the periodic table - the brilliant Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. Like SciShow on Facebook: ...
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When I was growing up as a young nerd, I had this above my bed on the ceiling, so that i could gaze at it every single night, which is... REALLY nerdy. We have that amazing piece of logical scientific arrangement because of this man. And no, that is not Rasputin, but he was another kinda crazy brilliant Russian. This is Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, and he's responsible, more than anyone, for coming up with the original periodic table of elements. So he deserves more than 15 minutes of fame, but we're only gonna give him three ♪ SciShow theme ♪ ♪ bloopy electronic music ♪ Mendeleev was born in Siberia, in 1834 as the youngest of between eleven and seventeen siblings. No one is quite sure, this is just—this is a bad lot in life. And he almost died as a teenager of tuberculosis. But lucky for us, ...
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When I was growing up as a young nerd, I had this above my bed on the ceiling, so that i could gaze at it every single night, which is... REALLY nerdy. We have that amazing piece of logical scientific arrangement because of this man. And no, that is not Rasputin, but he was another kinda crazy brilliant Russian. This is Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, and he's responsible, more than anyone, for coming up with the original periodic table of elements. So he deserves more than 15 minutes of fame, but we're only gonna give him three ♪ SciShow theme ♪ ♪ bloopy electronic music ♪ Mendeleev was born in Siberia, in 1834 as the youngest of between eleven and seventeen siblings. No one is quite sure, this is just—this is a bad lot in life. And he almost died as a teenager of tuberculosis. But lucky for us, ...
