Dmitri Mendeleev
Awards & Honours
3
Awards Won
5
Honours
3
Records
Mendeleev's accolades are not the kind measured in trophies but in the survival of his ideas. He won the Demidov Prize in 1862 for his textbook Organic Chemistry, the Davy Medal in 1882, and the Copley Medal in 1905. The element mendelevium, atomic number 101, carries his name, a distinction shared by few scientists. His periodic table became the organizing principle of chemistry and remains the standard classroom artifact worldwide. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize but never won it, an omission that historians of science still discuss. His real honor is that every chemistry student learns his table.
Awards
Honours & Distinctions
Davy Medal
Awarded for his contributions to chemistry.
Copley Medal
Awarded for his lifetime achievements in science.
Demidov Prize
Awarded for his textbook Organic Chemistry.
Mendelevium (Element 101)
A synthetic element named in his honor.
Foreign Member
Elected to numerous foreign academies and honorary degrees from several universities.
Records & Feats
Created the first widely accepted periodic table
Published in 1869, arranging elements by atomic weight and predicting undiscovered elements.
Predicted three unknown elements with accuracy
Gallium, scandium, and germanium were later discovered and matched his predicted properties.
Element named after him: mendelevium
Element 101 was named in his honor, a rare distinction for a chemist.