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Text№1:
D.I. Mendeleev was also one of the founders of the Russian Chemical Society. In 1869, he made his most renowned contribution to science by postulating the Periodic Law, named after him, and working out the periodic table of elements on the basis of this law. His main work was focused on various scientific issues, including chemistry, chemical engineering, physics, metrology, aeronautics, meteorology, agriculture, economics and public education. He was also involved in the development of Russian industrial production, settling in Siberia, and mastering the Northern Sea Route. A permanent member of the Council of the Academy of Arts (1894). Mendeleev was buried at Literatorskie Mostky. Element 101 on his periodic table, mendelevium, was named after him. The Mendeleev Congresses on General and Applied Chemistry was established as a tribute to his work. In 1934, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR instituted the Mendeleev Prize, now called the Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Questions:
1.What was Mendeleev’s contribution to science?
2. What was his main work focused on?
3. Where was he buried?
4. What element was named after him?
5. Who instituted the Mendeleev Prize? and when?
Task 1.Complete the sentences translating the words from Russian into English.
D.I. Mendeleev, the great Russian … (1)(ученый).He … (2)(родился) in Tobolsk on January 27. He was …(3)(спокойный)boy. He was … (4) ( увлекался)by the glass which was created at the factory his mother owned. He had never looked like a man whose …(5) (открытия ) had changed the world. In 1855 he… (6)(окончил) the Main Pedagogical institute. In 1869 he …(7) (создал)the Periodic Law.
Text№2
D.I. Mendeleev developed his version of the periodic table. On March 6, 1869, Mendeleev made a formal presentation to the Russian Chemical Society, entitled The Dependence Between the Properties of the Atomic Weights of the Elements, which described elements according to both weight and valence. The arrangement of the elements in groups of elements in the order of their atomic weights, corresponds to their so-called valencies, as well as, to some extent, to their distinctive chemical properties. Only a few months after Mendeleev published his periodic table of all known elements (and predicted several new elements to complete the table), Meyer published a virtually identical table. Some people consider Meyer and Mendeleev the co-creators of the periodic table.
Agree or disagree .
D.I. Mendeleev developed his version of the periodic table.
On May 6, 1869, Mendeleev made a formal presentation to the Russian Chemical Society.
The arrangement of the elements in groups of elements in the order of their atomic weights doesn’t correspond to their so-called valencies.
Meyer predicted several new elements to complete the table.
Some people consider Meyer and Mendeleev the co-creators of the periodic table.
Task 2. Translate from Russian into English.
Д.И. Менделеев внес значительный вклад в химию.
Д.И. Менделеева называли гениальным химиком.
Д.И. Менделеев был одним из основателей Русского химического общества
Д.И. Менделеева был членов более 90 академий наук, научных обществ, университетов разных стран.
Имя Менделеева носит химический элемент № 101.
Mendeleev made other important contributions to Russian chemistry, didn’t he? Do you know, that the Russian chemist and science L.A. Tchugayev has characterized him as "a chemist of genius, first-class physicist, a fruitful researcher in the fields of hydrodynamics, meteorology, geology, certain branches of chemical technology (explosives, petroleum, and fuels, for example) and other disciplines adjacent to chemistry and physics, a thorough expert of chemical industry and industry in general, and an original thinker in the field of economy." Mendeleev was one of the founders, in 1869, of the Russian Chemical Society. He worked on the theory and practice of protectionist trade and on agriculture.
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