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• Dmitriy Mendeleev: A Short CV, and A Story of Life. Modern biography of Mendeleev written by E.Babaev in 2009 for the journal Mendeleev Communications
  (see also Haitian Creole translation of this biography).
  
  
• Two recent papers of 2009:
  175th BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF DMITRY MENDELEEV and Periodic Law – Lodestar in natural science from the Voice of Russia
  
  
• Early comment on Mendeleev biographies by L.Graham in Russian and Soviet Science and Technology (History of Science Society Newsletter, 1989).
• An article The Universe of Mendeleev by P.Obraztsov dedicated to 170th anniversary of the Great chemist. From Izvestiya newspaper, 2004.
• New Mendeleev biography (published in 2003) by R.Morris in the book The Last Sorcerers: The Path from Alchemy to the Periodic Table. See Chapter 9, pp.157-175 (available free online).
• Mendeleyev: Overview from Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology, Moscow (cashed).
• Ich bin Mendelejeff: Excellent biography in English from Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute.
• Paper from The Moscow Times (2004).
  
  
• Short Mendeleev biographies from:
  - The Golden Book of Russia (2000),
  - The Voice of Russia and
  - Best of Russia sites (cashed).
• An article Everything in Its Place: One man's love affair with the periodic table by O.Sacks. From New York Times, 1998.
• A book by M.Gordin A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table. See the Table of Contents, a review from C&EN, and other reviews.
• Mendeleev at FECS Millennium Project "100 Distinguished European Chemists".
• Dimitri Mendelejeff: Short data in German from Heidelberg university and the map of campus where Mendeleev lived.
• BBC film " Steven Hawking's Universe" with one part devoted to Mendeleev. Download here! [250Mb]
• Father of the Periodic Table: a video cassette (28 min).
  
  
• ...Mendel, Mendeleev, Mendelson...
  Online encyclopedical sourses:
  - Editable Wikipedia,
  - Similar h2g2 project of BBC,
  - Eric Weisstein World of Science,
  - Columbia Encyclopedia.
  - The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography,
• Mendeleev's quotes.
• Miscellaneous overviews and compillations: to be continued.

Original papers
• Extract from the first Mendeleev's paper about the Periodic Law "The Relation between the Properties and Atomic Weights of the Elements", Journal of the Russian Chemical Society, 1, 60-77 (1869) [Engl. transl.]
  
• A short abstract of this paper (in German) has immediately appeared in Zeitschrift fьr Chemie, 12, 405-6 (1869). See English translation provided by C.Giunta.
• "A Natural System of the Elements and its Use in Predicting the Properties of Undiscovered Elements", Journal of the Russian Chemical Society, 3, 25-56 (1871) [Engl. transl.]
• Selected Classic Papers on Periodicity by Mendeleev
  and other authors (Newlands, Meyer, Ramsay).
• "The Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements", Faraday Lecture of Mendeleev, Journal of the Chemical Society, 55, 634-56 (1889). The copy is here.
• "An Attempt Towards a Chemical Conception of the Ether"
  by Professor D. Mendeleeff. Longmans, Green & Co, NY (1904).
• "The Danger of Free Trade" by D.Mendeleev, 1891 (Executive Intelligence Review, 1992).
• "On the Exploration of the Arctic Ocean" by D.Mendeleev, 1901 (Executive Intelligence Review, 2012; transl. by S.Welsh).
• Mendeleev's book "Towards Learning Russia": Modern comments by T.Aizatulin .
  
  Handbook "Principles of Chemistry"
  
• Original Russian edition: Osnovy Khimii. St.Petersburg, 1869: the cover and the title page.
  
• English edition: Mendeleyev D.I. The principles of chemistry. London. Longmans, Green, 1891. Microfiche No.23 available at Landmarks of Science Monographs.
• German edition: D. Mendelejeff. Grundlagen der Chemie. Ricker, St. Petersburg, 1891. Available at Heidelberg university library archive.
• Mendeleev's book "Principles of Chemistry" in the chronology of Russian history.

• Dmitri Mendeleyev and the Discovery of the Periodic Law by J.Tennenbaum from The American Almanac.
• Mendeleev and Meyer from the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
• The development of the Periodic Table from the Royal Chemical Society. Download as a single document.
• Mendeleev and development of the Periodic Chart (from Sequim Science).
• The Mendeleev Puzzle from Bakken Museum and Library.
• Compact History of the Periodic Table of the Elements from Aus-e-tute, Australia.
• Brief History of the Development of Periodic Table from Western Oregon University.
• History of the Periodic Table: an overview from Third Millennium Online.
• Origin and classification of elements (Dutch).

• Collection 1: From WebElements (UK)
• Collection 2: Chemistry Teaching Resources (Sweden)
• Collection 3: From The Pictorial Periodic Table (cashed)
• Collection 4: with screenshots by Ron Rinehart
• Yahoo! - Science: Chemistry: Periodic Table of the Elements
• Early collections (cashed) from The Catalyst and the set of Periodic tables on 169 languages.
• HTML tags for periodic table (cashed)
  
  
• Overview of the other possible types of periodic tables (e.g. for isotopes, hydrocarbons, functional groups etc.), involving hyper-periodic table for all molecules.
  
  
• Special "Periodic Table of Badges" from Moscow University. The buttons are issued every year in May (since 1965), when MSU is celebrating The Chemist Day, and each button is devoted to a certain element.

Many pictures of Mendeleev can be found in the internet:
click here or there

Some remarkable examples:

• Portrait of Mendeleev by Ilya Repin (1885).
• One more Mendeleev portrait by Ivan Kramskoy (1878).
• Collection of Mendeleev photos. From The Science & Society Picture Library.
  
• One memorial portrait of Mendeleev.

• Mendeleev name on the "The Science Wall of Honor" at Bridgeport University
  
• Philately: Mendeleev on stamps.
  
• Music: The song about Mendeleev. You may also enjoy this one...
  
• Check also the old page for more (early) links.

• "Mendeleevia": Russian electronic archive of the Great Chemist

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