How has your childhood impacted your career as a scientist/chemist?

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How long have you been a chemist?
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Julius meyer: could not find either.
Where were you born?
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was born in Tobolsk, Siberia, on January 27, 1834. He was the
youngest child of seventeen children. Young Dmitri was educated in the Tobolsk
gymnasium. Marya angrily determined to go her own way, and took her children to St.
Petersburg. She decided to place Dmitri in the Chief Pedagogical Institute in which his father
had been trained. Three months later, his mother died and his sister soon afterwards had
tuberculosis, and Dmitri was left alone in St. Petersburg.
Meyer was born in Varel, Oldenburg, Germany. He studied medicine at the University of Zurich,
and earned his M.D. degree at the University of Wurzburg in 1854. He then went to the
University of Heidelberg, where he studied physiological chemistry under Robert Wilhelm
Bunsen.
In your opinion what would you change on the periodic table?
He was a contemporary and competitor of Dimitri Mendeleev in developing the first periodic
table of chemical elements.
Whose periodic table is better?
In 1869, just five years after John Newlands put forward his Law of Octaves, a Russian chemist
called Dmitri Mendeleev published a periodic table. Mendeleev also arranged the elements
known at the time in order of relative atomic mass, but he did some other things that made his
table much more successful.
In the first edition of Die modernen Theorien der Chemie (1864), Meyer used atomic weights to
arrange 28 elements into 6 families that bore similar chemical and physical characteristics,
leaving a blank for an as-yet-undiscovered element.
Is there someone you looked up to while working in chemistry/science?





Did you ever work together?
Meyer and Mendeleev were among the young chemists attending the Karlsruhe Congress in
1860, and both were impressed with Stanislao Cannizzaros presentation of Amedeo Avogadros
hypothesis and the light it shed on the question of atomic weights.
Meyer's table was quite similar to Mendeleev's but contained several improvements.
Mendeleev, like Meyer, also revised his table several times and published articles describing the
revision in 1870 and 1871. Although the work done by Meyer and Mendeleev closely
corresponded, Meyer's focus was more on the periodicity of the physical properties of the
elements, whereas Mendeleev was more interested in the chemical consequences of the periodic
law.
If so was there tension?
No they worked together.
How old were you when you discovery?
Dimitri: 35
Julius: 25-26 while revising the periodic table.