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- Mendeleev was a very unique and interesting person as well as a genius. A characteristic always noticed in the portraits of Mendeleev is his enormous head of hair. Biographers say that he only cut it once a year in the spring and that he would not stray from this custom, even when he had an audience with the Czar!
- Honors, awards, medals, societies
- Demidov Prize (1862). Eight Honorary diplomas and medals including: Davy medal from the England Royal Society (1882); Gold medal from the Paris Academy of Flight (1887); Faraday medal from the English Chemical Society (1889), the Copley medal from the Royal Society of London. (1905).
- Doctor at the following Universities: St.-Petersburg, Edinburgh, Goettingen, Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, Glasgow, and Yale.
- Professor at the St.-Petersburg University and the St.-Petersburg Technological Institute.
- Member of Academies in Paris, Denmark, Vienna, Krakow, Rome, Belgium, Prussia, America, and Serbia.
- Member of the following societies: Royal Society of London, Royal Societies of Edinburgh and Dublin, Russian Chemical Society, Mineralogical Society of St.-Petersburg, Moscow Agricultural Society, Society of Addicts of Natural Sciences, and Society of Anthropology and Ethnography at the Moscow University, German Chemical Society, Society of Biological Chemistry, Italian Scientific Society, Imperial Academy of Arts, International Committee of Weights and Measures.
- Corresponding member at the St.-Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Society of Support of National Industry, Rotterdam Society of Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of Sciences in Goettingen, Royal Academy of Sciences in Turin, Royal Academy of Science in Rome.
- Honorary member of the Royal Institute of Great Britain, Imperial Universities of Moscow, Kazan, Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa, Yuryev, Tomsk, the Imperial Medical Surgery Academy, Moscow Technical High School, Peter the Great Agricultural Academy, Institute of Agriculture in New Alexandria, St.-Petersburg Polytechnic Institute, Tomsk and St.-Petersburg Technological Institutes, American Academy of Art and Sciences in Boston, Irish Royal Academy, Swedish Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences at the Bologna Institute, Russian Physical-Chemical Society, American Chemical Society, Imperial Russian Technical Society, the Societies of Natural Sciences in Kazan”, Kiev, Riga, Yekaterinburg, Cambridge, Frankfurt-on-Main, Goeteborg, Brunswig, Moscow Polytechnic Society, Moscow and Poltava Agricultural Societies, Society of Preservation of the National Health, Society of Russian Doctors, Medicinal Societies in St.-Petersburg, Vilno, Caucasus, Vyatka, Irkutsk, Archangelsk, Simbirsk, Ekaterinoslav, Pharmaceutical Societies in Kiev, Great Britain, Philadelphia, Society of Physical Sciences in Bucharest, Cambridge Philosophical Society, American Philosophical Society, Russian Astronomic Society, etc.
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Dmitriy Mendeleev: A Short CV, and A Story of Life, http://www.mendcomm.org/Mendeleev.aspx, accessed 19th February 2013
Dimitri Mendeleev, http://www.scienceshorts.com/dimitri.htm, accessed 19th February, 2013
Dmitriy Mendeleev: A Short CV, and A Story of Life, http://www.mendcomm.org/Mendeleev.aspx, accessed 19th February 2013