Can you give me some biographical tidbits about Mendeleev?
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Dmitri Mendeleev (Russian: Дми́трий Ива́нович Менделе́ев, Dmitriy Ivanovich Mendeleyev listen (help·info)) (8 February [O.S. 27 January] 1834 in Tobolsk – 2 February [O.S. 20 January] 1907 in Saint Petersburg), was a Russian chemist. He is credited as being the primary creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements. Unlike other contributors to the table, Mendeleev predicted the properties of elements yet to be discovered.\n\nBiography\nMendeleev was born in Tobolsk, Siberia, of Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev and Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleeva (nee Kornilieva). As a child, he was fascinated by the glass which was created at the factory his mother owned, and for a time, the young Mendeleev worked there. At the age of 13, after the death of his father and the destruction of his mother's factory by fire, Mendeleev attended the Gymnasium in Tobolsk. A prominent Mendeleev biographer has concluded that he was the 13th surviving child of 17 total, but the exact number differs among sources.[1]\n\nIn 1849, the now poor Mendeleev family relocated to St. Petersburg, where he entered the Main Pedagogical Institute in 1850. After he graduated, an illness that was diagnosed as tuberculosis caused him to move to the Crimean Peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea in 1855, where he became chief science master of the local gymnasium. He returned with fully restored health to St. Petersburg in 1856.\n\nBetween 1859 and 1861, he worked on the capillarity of liquids and the workings of the spectroscope in Heidelberg. In 1862, he married Feozva Nikitichna Leshcheva. Mendeleev became Professor of Chemistry at the Technological Institute and the University of St. Petersburg in 1863, achieved tenure in 1867, and by 1871 had transformed St. Petersburg into an internationally recognized center for chemistry research. In 1865 he became Doctor of Science for his dissertation "On the Combinations of Water with Alcohol". In 1876, he became obsessed with Anna Ivanovna Popova and began courting her; in 1881 he proposed to her and threatened suicide if she refused. His divorce from Leshcheva was finalized one month after he had married Popova in early 1882. Even after the divorce, Mendeleev was technically a bigamist; the Russian Orthodox Church required at least 7 years before lawful re-marriage. His divorce and the surrounding controversy contributed to his failure to be admitted to the Russian Academy of Sciences (despite his international fame by that time). His daughter from his second marriage, Lyubov, eventually became the wife of the famous Russian poet Alexander Blok.\n\nThough Mendeleev was widely honored by scientific organizations all over Europe, including the Copley Medal from the Royal Society of London he resigned from St. Petersburg University on August 17, 1890. In 1893, he was appointed Director of the Bureau of Weights and Measures. Mendeleev investigated the composition of oil fields, and helped to found the first oil refinery in Russia.\n\nMendeleev died in 1907 in St. Petersburg, Russia from influenza. Mendeleev crater on the Moon, as well as element number 101, the radioactive mendelevium, are named after him
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#History\n1817\nJohan August Arfwedson
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Rudolph Virchow?\n\nhttp://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Virchow.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Virchow
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http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40318\nit's really long, but i hope it helps
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Profile of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela\n\nA great man, go to these sites for more info:\n\nhttp://www.anc.org.za/people/mandela.html\n\nhttp://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1993/mandela-bio.html\n\nGood Luck!
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If you'd spelled the mathematician's (not "mathmeticion") last name correctly, it would have been easier to find ;-)\n\nSee these links:\n\nhttp://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Lobachevsky.html\nhttp://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Lobachevsky.html\nhttp://www.phy.bg.ac.yu/web_projects/giants/lobach~1.htm
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Hello....google has tonnes of information about this guy. Try this.
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Here's a great website with pictures of the various nobel gases in lamps so you can see their glows and describe them yourself.\n\nhttp://www.assumption.edu/users/bniece/Spectra/Complete.html
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1- Albert Eienstien ( His work in explaining the electrophotonic cell based on quantum mechanics)...note: this is not his greatest work, the theory of relativity is more important but it was not understandable by other scientists that time.\n\n2- Maxwell ( His work in establish the Electromagnetic Theory ).\n\n3- NIELS BOHR (for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them)\n\n4- WERNER HEISENBERG (for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen)\n\n5-  WOLFGANG PAULI (for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle)
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http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/einstein-bio.html\nhttp://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Einstein.html\nhttp://home.pacbell.net/kidwell5/aebio.html\nHere are a bunch
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Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB
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go to his biography or something
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Wikipedia has a biography of Alexander Alekhine at:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Alekhine
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Well, if you are really interested in knowing about his life and his work, I strongly recomend you to watch the film "Hawking". It is a really great show. I too also admire him a lot. He is still alive till today.
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..He was a brilliant scientist. He had a photographic memory and he won a court battle for the credit of the patent for the radio. Long after his death for the claim on the invention of the radio over Marconi. He died around the time of WW2(not becuase of the war).\nHe invented solutions and saw the invention in his head and never took many notes...The things you mentioned are yet to be confirmed and could very well be true, some of his inventions are mind-boggling.\n\n...you should have a look at the book : \nNikola Tesla - The Man Who Invented The Twentieth Century. \n\n- hope this helps...thanks.
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For Einstein, go to www.wikipedia.org, and type in his name. You'll get all you need to know & more...
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It was interesting reading about him. Here are some links that should help you.